No doubt I am displaying my invincible naivete here, but I bought one of these for SWMBO, and it has proven to be quite satisfactory, at about a quarter of the price.

No, it isn't as powerful as the Dell, but then how much power do you really need? Certainly it isn't as well made, it is actually somewhat cheap and flimsy, but handled with reasonable care there should be no problems. Overall, it is not as good a computer, but for a quarter of the price, I don't expect it to be.

In two years you can take half of the $730 you saved and purchase a new laptop that will be better than the current Dell is today.

tanstaafl.