which one would you pick?

[softball]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

I'm not a big fan of desktop replacement notebooks as a general rule. I like my notebooks to be portable and just powerful enough to do what I need to do while travelling, shooting, or whatever. Something light accompanied by an external hard drive for redundancy (i'm paranoid til pics and vids exist in at least 3 places) usually does it for me.

Now if you just like to be able to move around the house, I could see how a desktop replacement notebook might appeal.

Otherwise, a desktop is much cheaper, more upgradeable and can have a lot more horsepower especially in the video department.

I will say that the notebook i'm on now, which is a fairly well loaded 15" hp, is running 64bit vista. I have more blue screens of death and crashes on this thing in a week than I had in 2 years on my previous XP based notebook. I have already pre-ordered Windows 7 just to get Vista the hell off this thing as soon as possible.

If you have to buy something now, make sure it comes with a free Windows 7 upgrade.

If Win7 doesn't improve things, I'll either move to a macbook or a netbook.

I just rebuilt my computer and added vista. I can boot up in xp or vista and have not used xp at all. I love vista and have never had a problem. It performs superbly. I have never had speed and stability like this. So far so good and I am not a huge ms fan. I will be adding Linux next week as well on a virtual machine and perhaps hackintosh just to play. Fingers crossed on vista.
I'm with hp on the portability of laptops. The smaller and lighter the better.