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Originally Posted by fizzwheel
Anything by HP, Dell, Compaq, Toshiba is probably going to be OK. I'd have a look at Sony to except that they recalled IIRC some of their laptops a while back because the batteries were exploding.
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Catching fire... not exploding. Still wouldn't want one on my lap though
I'd go along with what others have said... set your budget and then shop around. Using a price comparison site like Dealtime has been very useful for me. See
http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPP-pc_laptops as a starting point.
My personal opinion is that Lenovo (used to be called IBM), HP, Mac, Sony, Toshiba and Dell are OK, Packard Bell is sh*te.
As far as specs are concerned, iTunes can use up lots of disk space, so look for a hard drive at least 60-80GB, with 1GB of system RAM & 256MB of graphics RAM if you want to run Vista (lots of stores are offering a free upgrade when it's released). Built-in wireless and a DVD writer are also things you'll probably want. CPU is less important.
HTH
Terence