I'm looking to buy the 15R Special Edition:
http://www.dell.com/ca/p/laptop-deal...TFKB5-L6OHB-v1
Today it's 1000$, but tomorrow Dell will have a Webcrasher sale on it meaning it will go down to either 800$ or 900$ (they had this for the Student sale 2 weeks ago). As you can see its processor, RAM and graphics card are very good for its price. I will also get the 4 year basic warranty, so with taxes that will bring me to a maximum of 1,436$ Canadian (tomorrow it will be even cheaper with the sale). As a reference point, I don't want to spend more than 1600$.
My last Dell, Inspiron 1520, still serves me as my main laptop/computer to this day, almost 5 years later. I've recently upgraded its HD, RAM and CPU and will be giving it to my parents, a huge upgrade over their P4.
I have no intention of buying Macintosh or Alienware computers. Other than that, anyone have any better suggestions for a laptop that could serve me faithfully for 3-4 years before I can start thinking of serious upgrades? I don't intend to run Crysis 4 on max settings 2 years from now, but if I can run it at all, that's good enough for me.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my endless blabbering about my life.