2011-08-29, 11:27 AM
Laptops nowadays are good enough to do most stuff on. Honestly, though, I have no idea what to recommend since I've heard bad things from all sides. Toshiba's quality going downhill, Acer simply sucking, HP losing their touch on hardware manufacturing (or having sucked all along), etc... Maybe Lenovo. Make sure you get one with a graphics card for those design programs, though (should be around $800+).
Be warned, though, that laptops are prone to breaking apart for "no apparent reason" at all and you can't really just replace the broken part. So if you factor that in, the desktop will be even cheaper than it seems right now.
Be warned, though, that laptops are prone to breaking apart for "no apparent reason" at all and you can't really just replace the broken part. So if you factor that in, the desktop will be even cheaper than it seems right now.