[Chickensoup]

Without getting an Apple, two of the best features I like on my MacBook are a metal chassis and solid state hard drive.

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thank you!

[KC Burke]

As long as we are making all your decision for you — here you go.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ultrabook-14-laptop-4gb-memory-256gb-solid-state-drive-black/1305962987.p?id=mp1305962987&skuId=1305962987&st=categoryid$abcat0502000&cp=1&lp=1#tab=buyingOptions

Asus, check
Solid State Drive, check (but if you start to store a ton of music and video you will need to get a portable hard drive to take the storage that the 256 Gig drive on this won’t handle)
Windows 7 instead of 8, check

Price 820.00 and if you want you can go to a store and see it.

[USNBandit]

One of my friends left his aluminum chassis laptop, in a soft case, on the roof of his truck. It reached rotation speed at about sixty five miles an hour on the interstate. Trashed the soft case, but the laptop survived with minor cosmetic damage.