it seemed appealing at first, but i wanted the following: i7 8gb+ ram 1tb hi res screen decent batterylife capable of playing the odd game at decent settings bluray portable not ugly I bought a dell XPS 15 this morning and it ticks all boxes, except bluray. I was also considering going down the SSD road, or even lappys with two drives. the downfall of that was either lack of storage or cost, and when you were talking laptops with multiple drives, you were also talking 4KG or so, which kills the portability criteria... a 17" also adds size and weight the XPS was the best option, and they are doing them at $400 off at the moment, so cost me $1650 with an upgrade to windows pro