We recently bought a Dell Latitude. It's officially for my hubby's business (I'm doing the bookkeeping on it), but I'm afraid I use it more for online and writing, lol. It works great -- let's see, we got it in Febuary. We also got the longer life 9 hour battery which made a huge difference when I'm out in about. The settings I have on the computer makes it to where it the 9 hour only lasts about 4-6 hrs, so I can just imagine how short of a time the 6 hour would have lasted.
Good luck!