I need to buy a personal laptop and the irony is I have 3 laptops from work, but per company policy no 3rd party software to be installed. I'm sure they would have a way of tracing it. I want to install RS so I can start working on some projects. I was thinking about going to Costco and seeing what they have. I'm kind of spoiled because the company laptops are really nice top of the line systems. HP's and Dell's all with 16-32GB of RAM, Core i7 ... it's too bad the company doesn't offer a buy back program.