I plan on getting a new laptop before law school. I heard Sony Vaois are good. But then again I'm more partial to Dells
I had nothing but problems with my dell back in the day

this makes me sad. this will be my first dell. as far as laptops go, i have owned a toshiba, a compaq tablet, and an hp-- i am hoping this dell will be good.
but, like i said, it's pretty much exclusively for writing papers in the library/taking notes in class, so it doesn't matter if it's a workhorse. i'm not gonna be doing any phot editing or gaming or anything hardcore with it. i considered having it solely run linux, but that's gonna be totally incompatable w/law school software, so i'll just leave that for my desktop. hopefully, opening microsoft office won't cause the laptop to crash.