I have to agree, Sell is the best that we have. It has a GREAT customer service. If all hell breaks loose & Your comp dies, they come to you house to fix it & if they cannot fix it, they replace it (BUT check with Sell before you buy it, to make sure its still like that). It has a good warrenty as well (GET IT!! its well worth it, cause dropping it is covered).

We have alwasy put our nose up to Dell, untill Tom was forced to get one from his job. He loves it & Tom is hard to please.

Insted of making ur dad pay for the laptop, see if he'll pay for 1yr's worth of training for Zeke or flyball. As I have learned, fathers tend to like that better then handing over cash, well my dad did anyways, as he knew where the money was going & not being wasted.