Cory, I made a move from an older Sager with a Core Duo to a Toshiba with an i7 and 8GB of RAM. It came with a 64GB SSD which I promptly swapped for a 128GB SSD. The secondary drive is a 500GB 7200RPM drive. Most laptop drives are 5400RPM which decreases performance in my experiences. There is no perfect off the shelf machine so look for a laptop you can upgrade at will. Sager was always good to me but this Toshiba fit the bill and I quite like it. W7 64-bit is still a bit buggy and I have a few problems with Crestron software on occasion (this is more of a software interaction issue that I havent solved yet but it looks like AVG is creating some problems with GNUmake.exe) but nothing major. I have to kill the GNUmake.exe process when it hangs up. SystemBuilder on an average Prodigy system takes about 5 minutes to build and compile.