Buying laptops is a seemingly easy choice, until you start looking which one you want to buy. Nowadays, there are two front runners for home users - Dell and HP. Walt Mossberg from Wall Street Journal recently wrote a nice article on buying laptops.

Link to the review

 Update: A friend of mine mentioned that the Dell Outlet is a great place to buy laptops (they sell returned and refurbished laptops at half price) and he has bought four of them and says they're great for college going kids ... http://www.dell.com/outlet