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<p>I’ve had my ThinkPad Edge for a few months now. I’ve never dropped it, but I’d agree that it seems pretty sturdy. No problems so far. Only complaint is the battery life; that could be remedied with a bigger battery, but I don’t really want my battery to stick out of my laptop.</p>
<p>Lol… Macs…</p>
<p>I second Toshiba.</p>
<p>Get a MacBook Pro. I love mine so much. It is the best computer I have ever had and I have had some good windows machines. I have NEVER had an error message or a waiting thing or a non responding program. It will be well worth it</p>
<p>Macbook Pro starts at $1200.
Budget is $400-$500.</p>
<p>I’ve had 3 laptops in college, an acer aspire, an HP pavillion and I recently bought a macbook pro. At first I didn’t buy into the hype of mac because they are more expensive and pretty hyped, but honestly it was the BEST investment I ever made. I spent $800-900 on my HP by the time I bought kapersky and microsoft word, etc. My HP crashed 3 or 4 times and I only had it for a little under 2 years. My acer was a good value but I lent it to my sister and she broke the hinges and screen on it so it was worth buying a whole new computer instead of trying to replace it.</p>
<p>There are financing options available as well with mac, I got a barclay card and I don’t pay interest if I pay it off in 6 months or less which is a really reasonable time period. I also like that mac does rebates, I just got a free hp deskjet with my macbook pro.</p>
<p>I love Macs. Unfortunately, your budget won’t get you a Mac. </p>
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<p>This toshiba fits your budget. Don’t forget to purchase and install Microsoft Office.</p>
<p>Macbook pro is a very good laptop, as you can see from all the bickering. lol. But it’s expensive and you have to add Apple Care which is $200+ depending on the model. Overall a Mac is easy to use and the customer service is easy and efficient.</p>
<p>There are plenty of good Macbook-like PC’s out there. But I heard that the quality control and customer service isn’t outstanding compared to Apple’s. Personally I have PC cause I’m like that kind of techie. xD</p>
<p>sad to see so many macbook pro responses here…</p>