Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Time to buy a new laptop

What the heck do you need an i7 for? Are you taking a class in rendering? or Video Editing where multi core processing will be of great use? The truth is that you are probably far better off to get a cheeper i5 or i3 as you will find that the rest of the computer becomes far more obsolete well beyond the time that you processor is being a bottleneck (ill conceived thought of future proofing)

As for the side of the SSD. realize that they are selling 1tb SSD's for $360 that you could install yourself. You will never get the likes of HP or Lenovo or heaven forbid Apple to pass on these savings to you the consumer. You are far better to get for your needs now and replace the drive in the next year or so when they fall down to closer to the cost level of hard drives today.