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Mixture of good and bad today. I'm still very definitely not healthy and not happy, and every lead I had as far as possible counselling goes has gone nowhere. On the up side, I've found somewhere to live for the six weeks I'll be in Dorset; one of the teachers at the school I'll be working at has a spare room with en suite bathroom, it's inexpensive enough that the University will cover it and I can get a lift in to school every day. Weight off my mind.

Which brings me to the point of the post. Lugging my computer down to Frome isn't going to be the easiest of tasks, and I kinda need to buy a laptop for work related things anyway - guarantee that someday I'm going to want to show mah pupils a powerpoint. So I'm looking for a laptop and I have absolutely no idea about buying computers, frankly. Should I be going with a laptop or should I be looking Macwards? Who can say?

I've got about £900 in the bank currently and I'll be getting another few hundred to spare at the end of the month, so don't recommend anything too pricey, but. What do you use? What works for you? Which brands are worth trusting?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. :)

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I actually would really recommend a Mac! Currently, they are the best laptop machine you can get your moneys worth. You can run both the Mac operating system AND Windows on it, so it covers all your programs, and with their service plan, the computer will last a good computer years without need for a major upgrade.

I would say get a macbook. That's the basic laptop model. You would want to get at least 2gb of memory, and I say over 100gb harddrive if you can afford because sometimes you just gotta store your packratty things on your laptop. And I would also say try to get the 2.2 Intel processor instead of the basic 2.0, if you can.

Macs can be expensive, but it would be cheaper than a dell (which I don't recommend at all right now. They are currently designed to last about a year, two max because of the cheap parts used and then you're forced you to buy a new one). If you look at the mac website, there should be a list for an "education store" in the side bar. You just have to provide the name of your school, and they'll knock a couple hundred off the price. You should be able to get what you need for 700-900.

If that's too much, um. Asus?