looking for laptop

[Jonathan Duncan]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Jason Hall wrote:

> My brother and I get in this debate a lot (we're both very cheap, just not as
> notorious as the fugal's).  This topic also came up here at work as we were
> comparing hardware on this years machine purchases.  If you look around the
> office (for those not knowing, we work together) and you will see some folks
> with new Dell laptops, and some with MBPro's.  Both have extremely similar
> specs, the Dell actually has a higher resolution on the screen.  The Dell was
> quite a bit cheaper, especially with our corporate deal.  But sit the two
> down next to each other and compare how they run.  Then compare the looks,
> the weight, the battery life, etc.  It's been interesting to see the
> difference, outside just the OS difference ( windows, linux, and osx on the
> different machines).  We really have seen a difference in how they run.
>

The results being...?