You might be right on the percentage count, but I'm not sure the result it's for US only or international. Of course they'll add Compaq since it's under their hood, hehe .

True... But some people do have their choice to stop and get another option/opinion. I'll be getting Lenovo Y460 by next week, with i5 540M, 4GB D3, 500GB HDD, Win 7 HP 64bit and 1GB HD5650. Really looking forward to see the benchmark if I tune the profile to performance and with some tweak to change GC to a HD5730...

From what I've known some retailers don't take Dell business class laptops like Vostro or Latitude series(not sure it's policy or no buyers...) They only have home series laptops like inspiron, mini, studio, SXPS and alienware bcoz of their relatively attractive designs.

I only know their design become very sleek when vostro v13 came out, then others follow the design pattern . Do agree with the warranty part and configuration part too, but some potential buyers do really want to feel and touch it rather than looking at pics hehe.