DELL sucks. My previous laptop was a DELL, they sent me a refurbished one after the 1st one had tons of issues. The one they sent me kept on overheating. I even remember when they spontaneously called me up asking if I wanted to buy a cooling pad, never putting the two together until recently when its been long gone. Im on a SONY now, stylish and Im very happy with it. Light weight too, only bout 4 lbs, decent battery. It even has a switch so when you are runnin it on batteries it saves power. When you are plugged in you switch to to speed/performance mode and it runs better. DOnt see much differences with the switchin except for the battery, which is the direct point of it.
HP is good too. Friend just got one, hwoever she got the bigger battery pack and it weighs a ton b/c of that, plus it sticks out.
Also DELL has poor customer service>>>INDIA, they can barely understand you, vice versa