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I personally like the Apple hardware (I don't use the MacOS though and install windows on it).
The main features (weight, WIFI reliability, screen, and reliability) are all there. I don't really care what CPU, Webcam or dolby sound - i have it muted, cam disabled, and CPU works just fine for my email and posting on GMAT Club ;-)

I have it hooked up to 4 monitors and it is doing just fine too, so it can handle a decent load I am not a huge fan of the touch-panel since it can crash in certain instances when Bootcamp desides to crash (not often but happens).

In terms of the actual question - HP vs. Dell. I have had both and I feel 10 years ago Dell was strong. HP sucked. I feel HP has improved and dell somewhat slacked (I can't figure their site out - i feel there are so many models and it is so complicated to shop for a laptop that it is almost trying to discourage me from shopping but thats perhaps me). I have owned 3 Dells and my wife has one now that I bought used. For the first year My Wife's dell became mute (sound card disappeared) every time there was a software update. That stopped happening about 6 months ago.

I have a friend who has purchased the new Surface a few months ago - he is not particularly happy with it. He gets a lot of odd errors such as out of memory and others, indicating that possibly it is a software issue but still not very pleasant.

Ultimately, I think there are many experiences that folks will have. I would recommend not going after the highest speed or highest something else but rather a tested and well-tried model that wont' require special drivers and special handling and would allow you to just work and use it....


P.S. I would definitely get SSD and at least 8 GB of RAM and that's about all the requirements I think exist. If you have a lot of files you like to carry, I would suggest getting an external SSD rather than trying to get a huge built in one but that's me. I don't have that much so a 512GB SSD is plenty (my first computer had a 720MB hard drive :dazed ) but I could probably fit into 256GB if I did not run WIN and MacOS on the same machine.

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