Yes, Sandybridge and AMD Fusion changed everything. Don't buy a laptop until they carry those CPUs.

>>2711
Seriously? I'd think a slightly older generation would still work perfectly well. The Lenovo is near top of the line spec-wise for this generation. The price tag speaks to that.

Solid State Drives are used by mostly smaller things like netbooks and macs; stuff that might take a lot of falls. Might be worth it depending on how clumsy you are.

>>2711
From what I'm reading around the net stay away from any any Sandie based machines. Hollywood strong-armed them into putting some kinda DRM crap into the chip-sets.

http://optionkey.posterous.com/intels-new-sandybridge-processor-and-integrat

>>2716
The DRM is only for Intel's movie service, Intel Insider I think

>>2718
Still I don't trust any such thing ever since the Sony Rootkit incidents

>>2719
the general hubub is that it's only for Intels' movie service, and doesn't effect torrenting or regular activity. However I'm still iffy over getting a sandybridge for a laptop. At those prices why not just go desktop and get full power?

>>2716
That doesn't seem much different than the HDCP built into any modern graphics card. Also, Anti-Theft 3.0 is pretty natch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClKF8sLRCGo&t=0m46s

>>2722
way too much like the stuff Apple is trying to push since the courts ruled "Jailbreaking" a phone is legal. I'll just go with AMD for now or whatever Nvidia is working on when they get it together.

So...there's no laptop that currently comes with a solid-state HD and 3.0 that's not a Mac, right?

>>2762
I believe the HP Envies and Vaio Zs have SSDs. I have no idea what you mean by 3.0, though. Can't be USB 3.0.

>>2763
yea 3.0 is still a little while to being implemented. I'd say next models later this year.

Okay, I've narrowed it down to: and Envy, either 14" or 17", or one of the Lenovo 510s. I might want to do some gaming on my laptop, and I will be using it through law school and my career (if you can call it that) in journalism. I may also be using it when I finally enter the workforce for reals.

Advice re: Core i7-740QM or Core i7-840QM processors