Best laptop/notebook for pose secondary and long term usage?

I am looking for a laptop that will last me through post secondary schooling and will also be usable outside of schooling. I would like it to be able to:



Run as smoothly as possible with little maintenance.

Have good specs so that i won't need to worry about swapping video cards and the like for a couple years.

Be immune to spyware, adware and the like :)

Be fast in processing speed



So basically i am looking for an awesome laptop ha ha ha.

Thanks!|||Get a Lenovo thinkpad. They are meant for business men so are reliable, portable, powerful and have extremely long life spans. They are pretty future proof. No operating system is free from viruses. Macs have a lot of viruses now (not nearly as much as windows). Even Gnu/linux has some. Heavily unix based systems like Gnu/linux are the most secure and least affected by the viruses.|||get a mac :)|||All computers are designed to be obsolete in (2) two years. Planned obsolescence|||You won't find a computer anywhere on the market that is totally immune to spyware and the like unless you buy something expensive. Or, you will spend a "steal of a buy" on a computer and then spend "an arm and leg" on the protection.



Your best bet would be Compaq or Toshiba. I've seen both last 6 to 7 years without major problems. If your computer comes with spyware protection, it needs to updated regularly



Why? Well, you can't very well last more than three days without eating something during those three days. Think of "updating" as "eating".|||A macbook(not the new one if your budget is tight) because it has the best battery life, about 5-7 hours and it hardly crashes, and it doesnt take any internet "threats" like virus or something like that. The virus dies when it enters a macbook or a mac, a virus can kill a PC, but not a mac or a macbook, also, its speed is fast.....waaaay faster than a PC.|||If you want personalized, reliable and quick advice, you should check out ProCompare.com -- http://procompare.com/top/laptops. They have a recommendation engine that ranks laptops based on reviews from a community of trusted IT professionals. They also have a cool personalization slider that lets you optimize the results based on the criteria that are most important to YOU.