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This laptop by Samsung has gotten pretty high reviews. Many reviewers say it has one of the best screens of any laptop. It also comes with a 1.5TB hard drive and a Blu-ray player. It also has the GTX 675 (which is based off the old GTX 580) but it still offers fantastic performance and decent...

About the packet thing, go here --> http://www.pingtest.net/. If you get anything above 0% for packet loss, games will play very poorly (know this from experience- Comcast sucks sometimes). This will also check your ping and your jitter. Pick a location that is at least 500 miles away from you.

I would suggest going with the S series if you're set on a Vaio. The E series is meant to be cheap, but what you need is more RAM and a better hard drive (you don't want to be stuck with an HD spinning at 5200RPM, it's painfully slow). Go with an S series and get at least 6gb of RAM (preferably...

Well, the 3rd gen of the i7 series has a performance increase of (up to) 30% and lightly increases battery life. If you do a lot of video transcoding, Intel also boosted that performance by 2x (Quick-Sync). Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Australian retailers or e-retailers, so I can only...

Is this is a legal copy of Windows?

I found this, but it's around $775 for the model with a decent GPU. Can you get any student discounts? This might also work, but it runs off last-gen components and has a poor screen resolution. Is battery life a huge concern?

It looks as though it's only available in India. Wait a few weeks, and it will probably show up in the U.S (or you can look for another Trinity laptop).