Mr. Walter Mossberg's spring guide to buying a laptop

http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319854

Looking for a laptop? Not sure what to buy? Do you fall within the “mainstream, nontechnical consumers” category? Got seven minutes? Watch!

For those of you who meet none of the above criteria, here’s the short version;

There are many laptops; some small, some large. Dell is cheap, Apple isn’t. Get 3GB of memory for Vista! Spend between $350 and $3000. Leopard is better than Vista! Make sure you get 802.11n wireless! Dual-core processors!

Here’s the long version.