Advantage of dell inspiron over toshiba laptops

I did some hard time as an it consultant a few years ago, and worked on a lot of sites using different brands of laptop.
It seemed that every manufacturer makes some good and some bad product lines.

Now this isn't in anyway intended to reduce the value of tikrjee's posting, (I suspect his experience was gained a few years later than mine, so there isn't really an argument IMHO) but I have to testify that my experience was that dell laptops were significantly more durable and reliable than toshiba laptops. In particular I highly rated the c series laptops because they are so common, so when I did get a rare failure, the parts were much easier to find and cheaper.

In my opinion the MODEL of laptop you buy is probably more important than the manufacturer.

Certainly, I have seen both toshiba and dell make particular laptop models that had obvious failings, alledgedly some "d6xx" series dells are a bit prone to motherboard failures, yet others with one digit changed in the model number are free of that problem.

If you are buying new, it's all a bit of a gamble, but if you are going for used, then ask a few experts what used to be the best laptop money can buy, then buy the model that more than one of them recomends... :c)

Hope that's useful, it seems to have worked well for me.

The only reason I've had to work on Dells so often is because, well, for quite some time, they were the best selling laptops out there. I've never had the liberty (?) of fixing an ASUS laptop, and have had absolutely no problems as of yet with any of their motherboards or monitors, so I can only assume they live up to their (and everyone else's) claims of reliability.
In fact, I've been using a Dell laptop at work for the past month because my primary workstation is down and I've yet to get corporate go-ahead to fix the damn thing (Yay red tape!). Granted, it's 4 years old and has 6 minutes for battery life, but it's still ticking.