You can have one built by a reputable shop, like here in the states I use micro-center, I picked the parts out, they installed everything and I'm quite happy. I have a builders disk operating system instead of a recovery disk like when you buy a pre made one, so less hassle when need to recover sager makes good laptops in case you are stuck on that for whatever reason, they build it for you too, you pick the processor and ram and a cpl options for graphics too. And you get the OS on disk too and why not add your own money to get what you really want?
So, take 800 or 900 they offered up and add 500 of your own money? Your best bet is a desktop, or the sager or a 530 thinkpad, those are custom made by lenovo too if you must go portable....and have it built......best wishes.
Lucky you, I had to pay for mine... If you want failsafe, go for alienware. However they generally have lower specs than custom built laptops on sites like pcspecialist and DinoPC, those are UK sites though. But these custom laptops are still reliable, just less so, and you won't necessarily get the level of customer support you get from dell with alienware.
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