On 26/04/15 13:59, Adrian wrote:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:28:49 +0100, John wrote:

Not really much to help you except to say that Lenovo are a
well-respected brand.

They used to be IBM's personal computer brand, of course, before all that
business was sold off to Lenovo (Chinese, 12% owned by a wing of the
Chinese government), who'd been actually building the machines for IBM
for a while.

I'd generally lean towards Dell as a first choice.


I had a Lenovo last time and liked it. But this time there were a lot of
complaints on the forums about certain features, especially the
touchpad. And the "build it anyway you want" option was extremely
diminished.

Dell let me do a good customisation but it did help that I got a quite
decent academic discount on mine.

I'd always keep an eye on HP, Asus and Samsung - not every time do they
make great stuff, but overall they tend to produce on average pretty
decent kit. Narrow the model down with a bit of forum research - some
models of almost any make can turn out to be lemony.