Deciding between two laptops

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<p>IBM notebooks are amazing, durable, and have great keyboards...</p>

<p>Toshiba notebooks are the biggest pieces of crap</p>

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<p>IBM's still don't have touchpads. NEXT!!!</p>

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<p>Umm...</p>

<p>Yes they do.</p>

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<p>touchpads are annoying.</p>

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<p>And no, those pointing stick thingies aren't touchpads. Every IBM I've ever seen has those things.</p>

<p>Besides, IBMs are windows-based. NEXT!!!</p>

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<p>My son just got a Sony Vaio CF series from Costco that he's pretty happy with. We're happy because Costco has a great return policy -- if you don't like it for any reason within the 1st 6 months, they'll take it back, no questions asked & give you a full refund. (Of course, it's a hassle & you'd better save everything, but still, no restocking fee & hassle about them repeatedly making time-consuming, ineffective efforts to fix a junk computer, which some other sellers do.)</p>

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<p>First of all, four out of five laptops are assembled in Shanghai:<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33284%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33284&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This morning's NYT has the following story about the IBM/Lenovo issue with the State Department: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/technology/29interview.html?ref=technology%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/technology/29interview.html?ref=technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>From the Lenovo website: <a href="http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/t-series/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/t-series/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Scroll through the pictures at the top of the page to the fingerprint reader. Sure looks like a touchpad to the left of the fingerprint reader...</p>

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<p>So what's your point? I'm not buying a windows-based computer, period.</p>

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<p>I got an HP from Costco and it rocks. It beats any Mac with the same config pricewise and it beats any Mac with the same price config-wise</p>

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<p>LMAO the dissage...</p>

<p>But yeah, Thinkpads usually have both the pointstick and touchpad except for some ultraportable models.</p>