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Slightly off topic... choosing a new laptop

** Update ** decided to plump for the ThinkPad Yoga on an i7 and 8GB RAM.  I wish there was a 16GB option, and I will miss Quad Core but my back will be much happier! The final deciders were  1) ability to use it on a train 2) "good enough" screen res (not this stupid high res fad thats going around)  3) its an i7, even if its only dual core.   4) It's a nicely made machine.   Hoping to get it in a couple of weeks My trusty (not) Lenovo W520 is approaching three years old now, and the heft of this machine is really starting to get to me, or should I say get to my ageing back.  So I reckon it's time to look at replacing her. When I chose this beast back in 2011, things we're very different.  If I needed to demo SharePoint, I would have to bring along a Windows Server laptop running Hyper-V with some serious RAM and SSD add-ons, which meant my laptop options were limited.  The main contenders were some nameless HP thing, a Dell Precision and th