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I'm currently using an HP dv9000 which has worked well but it's moving to another project so I'm getting a new laptop for work. I've personally had good experiences (for the most part) with my HP though several co-workers have had horrible experiences with theirs so I'm looking at other vendors besides HP...so what has anyone else been using that is a rock solid laptop for development?

Well, I bought a Lenovo T61p and it is quite good.  It is basically a machine that is aimed at performance and I find that it delivers.  It is not a pretty machine and the support for it is probably the worst that I have come across.....ever, but the machine is great.

I've had at least one other recommendation on the T61 so I'll have to check those out. Thanks!

A few quick notes: 

Pros 

The one major upside to it is that it is a great machine.

Cons 

The two major downsides for it are:

a) The support is terrible.  Period!  End of Story!  I can't find words to describe the level of support that they offer, but let me try....They are so bad that they actually make Dell look good in comparison and I never thought that I would ever use the words "Dell" and "Good" in the same sentence

b) The machine will often take a very long time to receive.  My machine took over 3 months from the time that I paid for it to the time that I received it.  This involved a number of calls, each one ending in "Our records show that it will ship out next week" .  .

agree with David... Lenovo support is really bad..

 earlier I had Acer.. Aspire series is a good performance machines but poor quality.. and cheaper... currently I am using HP dv6000 series, nice performance with awsome support... I am going to buy new laptop pretty soon.. and I am considering HP again.. but also many recommended me DELL as DELL's support seems to be good in India.. lets see.. I will be making purchase in coming few days.

I had an Acer - one of those huge ridiculous 20 inch laptops...for such a large machine it's performance seemed choppy at best...they used a centrino processor versus a full P4 (my smaller older HP ZD7000 used a full P4). The only kinda nice thing was the gigabit NIC and the dual hard drives...but they were 5400RPM.

 I priced out a rather nice Alienware with Solid State drives which I could get but am still looking at Dell and HP (yeah I know Alienware is owned by Dell) mostly because in the past when I've needed support HP and Dell have been good. HP acutally has enough "deals" going on right now that their laptops are less expensive (even really decked out) but they still didn't offer solid state drives.

David - did you get some kind of price break or refund when you finally got your machine? I imagine the price of your configured laptop must have dropped in the 3 months between ordering and the time you finally got it.

Man, I really love your sense of humor