HP Pavilion dm4 14-inch notebook: $600 at Staples
Here’s what I like about this notebook: It’s only $600 and it sports an Intel Core i5 processor and it’s housed in brushed aluminum and it only weighs 4.4 pounds even though it’s got a 14-inch screen and a DVD burner.
That’s about it, though. Oh and it has a fingerprint reader and 6+ hour battery life. And six gigabytes of RAM. I like those things, too.
I don’t like that you have to send away for a $50 rebate. Nobody likes mail-in rebates. So for me, this computer costs $650. For anyone who’s the least bit organized, it costs $600 plus postage to send out the rebate form.