[MysticLlama]

Personally I only buy Dell midrange to high-end Latitudes (not Inspirons). And aim for the most common model also. (check ebay to see what there is the most of) This makes parts like keyboards/batteries/etc. easy and inexpensive to find later.

I get the 3 year complete care warranty, covers everything, and have had to use it plenty of times to make it worthwhile. (I support several in the office)

A little spendy, but I have several that are 5+ years old and running just fine, and some of the 3 year old Compaqs are crap.


I'm also partial to Panasonic toughbooks, they just rock. I have an old one I'm playing with right now, it's too bad it's so slow, it's the hardcore mag case one.

The new IBMs look really cool, but I don't have any long term experience with them.