>I have at work a SONY VAIO GRV550 laptop, which I like, but it is the business'. I am thinking about buying my own personal laptop and am wondering what the best one would be? The Sony laptop doesn't seem to read some CD's. We took it to a client and it could see nothing. We put the CD on another machine and it saw everything. I can't have a Notebook that is unreliable like the SONY was. Anyone got any ideas. How about the DELL Inspiron? Is that the best as far as reliability?


I think the reliability of the Dell is much the same as other notebooks (in our experience of Dell, HP, Cpmpaq etc). The thing we like about Dell is their on-site service which is the best we have experienced. I was even able to get them to come out to my Hotel in San Antonio and replace the motherboard on an Inspiron I have brought from Australia (the day following my service call). Many others have carry in service models or eve return to base which would be no good for us where we travel a great deal in Australia and Internationally and need the notebooks wherever we are. If you get a Dell I would also ectend the warranty to 3 years.