Whew, talk about posts that didn't age well!  When I saw that Boingo bumped the thread, I was shocked that I was the OP.

Just wanted to stop in and say Kevin's right here, used laptops are absolutely the way to go. It's an old topic but I'm glad I get to post this info somewhere.

Look at the enterprise grade laptops, here are my favorites:
- the Dell Latitude series (I like my E7450 a lot, it runs great, even with Linux) ($80-250)
- the Lenovo P series (e.g. P50, P51) (around $500 but very nice)

I don't think I'd ever buy a new laptop, or spend more than $200-500 on a laptop ever again.

One more thing, stay away from laptops that have 3D accelerator cards (Nvidia Optimus, etc.), laptops with just integrated (e.g., intel HD) graphics are more reliable.

I'll never buy a gamer laptop again, from my own experience and from what I heard from others, they are always unreliable. If you can build your own (even small form factor) desktop instead, do that, but if you really really need a gamer laptop (e.g., if you travel and game) then be prepared for some flakiness.

Welcome to the forums Kevin!

Two metal minis I ordered just arrived today.



They are made of a copper and nickel alloy, but they pretty much have the same look and feel as the classic pewter minis of the 1980s


On Thursday I also got a shipment of 50 minis.  I was delighted at getting them so quickly, but I was a little disappointed.  The lot was supposed to be for a random assortment, so I expected to get a few multiples.  What I was not expecting was for 11 of the 50 minis to all be the same guy with a whip. There were a few minis I would have loved to have gotten more of, and there were a bunch of minis on the sales page that I didn't get at all. I also got 8 space marines.  I would complain about it, but as we a know, you can never have too many space marines.

Nice to meet you Kevin.