Originally Posted by fleadh

If it's going to be a laptop that you bring to the track, I'm a firm believer in getting something cheap. It's going to get jacked up quickly w/ travel, banging around, dropped, hit, dirty hands, etc. I normally try to get something cheap off Amazon in the $400-500 range and plan to replace it every other season... any current Windows based laptop will be fine for what you want to do.

-mike