I should have my new laptop tomorrow. I bought an Asus Z70Va (refresh). It's the perfect combination of power in a small form factor at a great price.

Most laptops nowadays are only made by a few different companies. Asus makes tons of laptops and they are then sold to other companies, like ABS, who throws on their own logo and resells it. You can get an Asus from lots of online resellers, either preconfigured, or in the 'whitebook' Built On Asus platform. You can add the CPU, RAM, Hard Drive, Optical Drive, Wireless Card and OS on your own, or you can buy it totally preconfigured. You get a warranty on the keyboard, screen, motherboard and chasis, which in a notebook is really all you need since you can replace virtually all of the rest by yourself.

I got my machine decked out to the nines:

2.13 ghz Pentium M
2 GBs Ram
128 mb Radeon X700 gpu
Wireless B/A/G w/ Internal Bluetooth
100 gb hd
DVD/RW

The machine tops the scales at 5.6 pounds, and it has a 15.4" screen. The case is awesome. Just read the reviews and you'll be sold too.

I bought it here.

Check out Notebookforums for more info than you would ever need on every laptop out there!

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