>I have had a Dell Precision M6300 with 17" screen, 2.2GHz, 2.0 GB, 100GB hard drive, and running Vista Business since March. I like it alot. It is faster than my old one that was comparable and ran XP when using common tools such as Source Safe and such and has not crashed once. I use VFP 9, Sql Express, VS 2008, and the standard office suite on it.
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>I have no complaints once I turned the UAC off.

I've been using a Dell Inspiron 9400 (also known as E1705) with 2GIG, 17" screen, and loaded with all options you could get with it for 2 years.

Works like a champ. Regrettably I'm using 32 bit Vista Ultimate, but it does not crash and has been pretty much solid as a rock.

I recommend Dell laptops highly.