PCs: Yes, choice is good, but enough already!

[Acer]

Shopping for sub-$800 laptops for work. It's a morass of model lines, model numbers, OS choices (vista/vista with xp downgrade/7 home/7 pro/ubuntu), cpu's, build-to-order options--and this is repeated for every one of the half-dozen larger names and another half-dozen niche players and off-brands.

And in the end, no matter what I buy, it'll just be a crappy PC laptop...