Disclaimer: I'm about as bad with laptops as I am with laser projectors.
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OK.... I did the deed and finally bought what I firmly believe will be the LAST "be all, end all" laser show laptop. I've gone through a number of them that I haven't liked or had some sort of problem but I ended up with a beast of a gaming machine, the Asus ROG G751 J. 17.3" touchscreen, i7 proc, currently 16 gig of RAM, 4 USB3.0 ports, VGA, HDMI and Thunderbolt ports, dual hard drive capability, yadda, yadda yadda. Is it overkill? Yeah, probably but, isn't that what we do?
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Anyway, I put a 500 gig SSD in as the main drive and W-O-W! Boot time went from 1:32 to 8 seconds. And it's not even m.2 SSD which is reportedly twice as fast as SATA. Anyway, for the second bay for storage, I picked up a Seagate 1TB Laptop Hybrid Drive but now, before I open it, I'm having second thoughts. I paid like $91 at Best Buy and I'm seeing it for closer to $70 other places so, I may return it anyway but, I'm also hearing the Western Digital Scorpio Black 500 gig drives are potentially faster and some people have expressed that the hybrid drives have been a problem. It's sort of a bastardized way of boosting performance of a standard 5400rpm drive. The 1TB versus 500 gig doesn't bother me too much since really, shows and music don't take THAT much room. Even the shows in wav files, while larger are going to take a long time to fill 500 gig.
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So... anybody have familiarity with either of these two? And if the Scorpio is a better choice?