Laptop ideas (part deux)

[Fire$torm]

Thank you for all the feedback guys. I am hesitant with HP, I have had bad luck with more then a number of HP machines. Never owned an ACER or MSI. The Lenovo's CS history is a turn off. I was checking out the MSI's last go round.

For the Lenovo, would it be able to run as a pseudo 8-core with the i7? Was able to do that for a little while on a friends i7 920 for a little while. I tend to focus on CPU based projects, hence the question in terms of the MSI's i5 in comparison.

Now, would the feature set on this Toshiba be worth the few extra dollars?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

I really like that Qosimo. Sweet setup and it is AutoCAD certified. Overall It has good user reviews on NewEgg. The one bad review was from an owner who was too brain dead to realize he/she had a faulty power brick. All of his/her complaints are related to it. It is generating a ton of EMI.

Anyhow check out the user Qosimo user manual here. That should help with the decision process.

In terms of bloatware, there is no way to avoid it on mass market systems. The only way to get around it (assuming of course this does not void your warranty) is to delete all the partitions with a partition manager like gparted and install the OS from retail media. You will have to grab the system drivers from the manufacture's website. Just skip anything that is labeled "Value Added", "Recovery", "Assistance" and the like. Those are the things loaded with bloatware/spyware. Dell is one of the worst in this respect.