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Re: Opinoins on good laptop
Upgrading hard drives and optical drives will not simply void your warantee. Considering companies release guides on how to do it, and they're all easily removed. Sure, if you break your laptop while you are performing hte swap, it would not be covered, but simply upgrading would not void the warranty. As far as under the $500 mark, you can probably count apple out. Their laptops start around $900+ and go up quickly, if memory serves.
I have an HP tx1000 series laptop I picked up for $899, and they're awesome. They've since released the tx2500 series, and they're awesome. Black friday you should be able to find them around $600. 2.2ghz dual core 64bit processor, 2gb ram, 160+gb hd, dvd-rw with litescribe, 12.1" convertible touch screen, IR remote, dedicated graphics, and 4-6hr battery life. I don't mind hte smaller screen because hte laptop itself is very tiny. because of that it has such awesome battery life, considering most 17" get around 1.5hr at best. The graphics chip by nvidia allows me to play some lite games as well.
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