ahah @ hp service, was dah?
lolz, ive personally handled hundreds (literally hundreds) of HPs for a certain company *coughcough* and the failure rate is just astounding, and the service through memory bank does not hold a candle to dells sad to say.
Id rather recommend an acer or asus since htey are great price performance, and since asus has the lowest failure rate of all laptops.
Depending on your needs, you may want to look around before settling on a dell, they dont have the best specs in the world, but their warranty can make up for it.