Buy anything, and pray it won't breakdown. If it breaks down, blame it on your bad luck. If I were you, I'd buy Sony VAIO because I have this unshaken trust with Sony products (although I am not a fan of Sony). If I have two products, one is sony and other is something else, I'd go for Sony. No good reason whatsoever. Me, I saw a Dell Inspiron 6000 ad. on the Dell catalog, and I ordered it in a snap. That was back in 2005, and it is working  F I N E fine to date. Not a great computer, but it serves my purpose.