When deciding on what laptop to get – what are the most important things to you? Is it speed? Is it the amount of memory, or the amount of hard drive space? Is it how it looks (Alienware are good for that)? Or is it the price?

I used to think that really, lots of speed power was the thing, but more and more I tend to think of memory (as my own degrades!). The more the better. Hard drive space tends to matter little when you can buy external hard drives that are huge and easy to transport.

But one thing to bear in mind is this: how well does the laptop age? I still use my laptop for writing documents on, the odd bit of browsing, and also for testing my designs on IE6 (which it is invaluable for!). The other day I realised I got this laptop in 2000! That’s an incredible 8 years of service shortly to be 9 years in a couple of months. For a laptop that should be in a museum now, that’s amazing!

So, if that’s what matters, how long it will run, I would tend to favour HP (mine is a HP Pavilion N5390), it has done me proud!

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