I was researching information about laptops, today, and ended up spending about 6 hours on research/building/buying my machine. I am curious to find out what machines others bought, for what reason(s), and how/where you researched the information. Hopefully this will come of use to others.

By the way, I bought the Inspiron 13 from Dell. There were other similar models from Samsung, Toshiba, and Lenovo, but none could beat Dell on price.