What laptop brands are best?

[popeyespappy]

The functionality you are most likely to use is built in to both products. And any time you're giving out a document, USE PDF!.

Unfortunately PDF's aren't always an option. Many documents are collaborative efforts. That makes PDF’s unusable unless everyone has got Adobe Acrobat, and I don’t know anyone that’s not in the publishing business that uses that. Plus I've seen problems with formatting and tracking changes between Office and OpenOffice. I haven’t tried any of the other office suites though.