[dcoski]

Greetings -
I'm in the market for a new laptop and want to buy the best one for blackberry connectivity.

I have an 8830 and have always had trouble connecting/syncing it with my Dell Inspiron (that just crashed.)

As a journalist covering Congress, my blackberry is used for personal, as well as business and I am entirely dependent on it for syncing contacts.

Keep in mind that I have been using a blackberry since 2003 so, I do have a grasp of how the machine works. Again - I have ALWAYS had problems syncing my previous styles of blackberries with my computers (Dell Inspiron (personal), IBM thinkpad (work), HP Pavilion (work) and currently a Macbook (work.)

In the past I have had major problems with the desktop manager - it could have been my operating system - not quite sure. No matter how hard I tried, the contacts often were duplicate or in some cases triplicates .

So - HELP - any and all laptop recs are welcome.
Thank you.