Hello everyone,

I need a new laptop for college. My former one has become obsolete because now the system requirements are higher.

Minimum System requirements (as denoted by my college):

- Intel Core 2
- 4 GB RAM
- 100 GB hdd

My personal system requirements:

Code: [Select]- boots quite fast (I don't want lag, especially not during lecture or labo, because I don't want to lag behind (literally and figuratively))
- no lag even after installing over 300 applications
- very good, fast harddisks with good L2/L3 cache and access time (to the point: no slow disks! Again, don't want to lag behind and need fast disk acces time)
- fast RAM access time (also for PROGRAMMING, I don't want lag, or at least minimal lag)
- good, reliable RAM
- a good form factor and no heating issues.
- decent motherboard
- wifi
- vga
- network card
- optic media (DVD/CD reader/writer)
- bluetooth
- 4X USB
- 5 to 8 hour battery life on medium usage

In short: I am look for a very decent laptop that has to be powerful as a motorcycle, fluent as oil and durable/reliable as a rock. I can't afford to lag during my high requirement-lectures.

There is a teeny itsy bitsy problem though.. I'm just a student and I don't have a lot of money..
So my budget is either credit-wise 50/75 euro a month or between 700 and 1000 euro (don't have time to save up because classes already start. Don't know, maybe I could save up and use this laptop temporarily (with only 2 GB DDR dual channel RAM).

Someone recommended me a MacBook Pro and says you can run Windows on it because the latest macs, since 6 years ago, have a standard Intel Chipset. I don't know about this because I have too much to study and I lost track of HARDWARE news etc.

Any recommendations?
Deadline: 20 september

I would get something with a solid state drive and Windows 7. Having a solid state drive will bring your boot times down to less than 30 seconds (Windows 7 knows how to really take advantage of ssd), prolong your battery life (FEWER moving parts), and increase the durability of the laptop (no conventional hard drive parts to hurt).

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a good form factor