If you never want to have to worry about problems with it. Get a Dell 
and the "Complete Care" warranty. You can literally throw your laptop 
against a wall and they will fix it good as new. Things I have seen them 
fix, while having to support some employee laptops.
* Replaced shattered LCD - multiple times
* Replaced smashed keyboard from someone pounding it with their fist, 
multiple times
* Replaced outer casing to fix drop damage
* Replace hard disk
* Replace motherboard
* Replace onboard trackpad and/or mouse buttons
* Replace broken USB ports

Basically they fix anything wrong with it, and they come to wherever 
you/she is to do it. All of the damage above was from abuse, and they 
still made it just like new.

-Charles

Mark Phillips wrote:
> My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take 
> a laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from 
> Gnome, so Windows, Mac, Linux are all "the same" to her. She is a 
> journalist, not a computer geek. Anyway, one significant requirement 
> is for iTunes to work with her iTouch (i.e. buy music and download to 
> her iTouch). I have not been able to get Wine/iTunes to work with 
> Debian, so I have resorted to a single Windows computer just for a few 
> games and iTunes at home. 
>  
> Any recommendations (1) for laptops and (2) how to keep her using 
> Linux and not shelling out extra bucks for a Mac, or heaven forbid, a 
> Windows machine?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Mark

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