Vlad,

I'm still very happy with my 18 month old Dell Inspiron 8500 that has the 1920x1200 wide format display. This has held up better than my prior two notebooks.

>I am looking into buying a laptop that will be primarily use for development.
>I really like the ones with 17" monitor and I am thinking about the HP Pavillion.
>I know there was a thread a while ago in which someone asked pretty much the same question but I am not able to find it.
>Any suggestions/recommendations are welcome.