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[SMD]

You can't get much worse than a Sony laptop. I'm sure there'll be unanimous agreement on that point.

Oi! Whats wrong with Sony? I had mine since 2009 and it's still going strong, apart from a dead DC jack, faulty screen ribbon and a battery that doesn't hold charge.

TehBoy, I would get a desktop if I had the room but I also need portability so has to be a laptop. As for good spec, it's more of a want than a need. My current laptop is still running Vista and is very slow and after briefly experiencing the rapid boot up time and program loading time of SSD, I wants it!

What business orientated laptop would you suggest for similar money then? Surely they would cost a few hundred more and be chunkier than a brick?

[EMD]

The Sony Vaio  i have , the touchpad packed up , then the laptop itself gets extremely hot on the base . The battery loses charge within 20 minutes and the system takes an age to load . Well done Sony 

[aaronjb]

The biggest downside with Lenovo is finding the right drivers should you have to rebuild or upgrade the OS.

No I think the biggest downside is that they come preinstalled with root certificates that enable people to MITM your traffic, oh and to insert adverts in your browsing.. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-honestly-thought-youd-enjoy-that-superfish-https-spyware/

Still, at least it's not like the NSA has malware capable of installing itself into the firmware of the hard drive in just about any Windows computer.. oh, wait: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

[SMD]

For a brief moment I was considering TBs advice about professional laptops and looking into Lenovo Thinkpads. Hmmm

Would you trust them when they claim to have removed this?

[aaronjb]

Allegedly it only impacted consumer laptops rather than business laptops, though I don't know.. would I trust them? No more than I'd trust any IT company, really..

It's easy enough to remove the SuperFish stuff, at least. Or flatten and reinstall from a standard Windows image.

[TheBoy]

One of my bro's bought an HP 250 4th gen i3, 4G, 500G HDD blah blah for under £300 notes delivered last month.

Personally, I'd yank out the HDD, and spend £50-£100 on a quality 100-250Gb SSD. If running 64bit, possibly bump the RAM a tad.

But if you *NEED* i5/i7 performance, as said, get a desktop. Or pay the wrong side of £1200.  Anything else will be unreliable.

[TheBoy]

The biggest downside with Lenovo is finding the right drivers should you have to rebuild or upgrade the OS.

No I think the biggest downside is that they come preinstalled with root certificates that enable people to MITM your traffic, oh and to insert adverts in your browsing.. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-honestly-thought-youd-enjoy-that-superfish-https-spyware/

Still, at least it's not like the NSA has malware capable of installing itself into the firmware of the hard drive in just about any Windows computer.. oh, wait: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

Personally, I'd never use *any* manufacturer's build. Bloaty, compromised, full of shite that companies pay the manufacturer to put on.

[Doctor Gollum]

Not great for build quality IME. Busted clips fitting more ram. Camera fell out. 

[The Sheriff]

The biggest downside with Lenovo is finding the right drivers should you have to rebuild or upgrade the OS.

No I think the biggest downside is that they come preinstalled with root certificates that enable people to MITM your traffic, oh and to insert adverts in your browsing.. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-honestly-thought-youd-enjoy-that-superfish-https-spyware/

Still, at least it's not like the NSA has malware capable of installing itself into the firmware of the hard drive in just about any Windows computer.. oh, wait: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

Personally, I'd never use *any* manufacturer's build. Bloaty, compromised, full of shite that companies pay the manufacturer to put on.

Most of us have no choice, Jaime.