Help me out here please, SSD question

[jtuck004]

11. I noticed your talk about a new computer. Unless you need the big case for something,

look around ebay at the Lenovo Core 2 Duo's. (T400 or R400 (the second one is slightly heavier). They can hold up to 8GB (I bought mine from Crucial for $70ish, but others have told me they have cheaper stuff that works) - the one I got had an ssd, and I bought a hitachi drive and replaced the cd rom (I use mostly USBs now) - Other than memory (I run 3x that in my bigger case so I can work with virtual servers) this thing really does well.

Running Linux Mint 15 xfce today, have had ubuntu, other linux, Windows 7, and will probably have Mint 16 xfce on it before the week is out. I also run VirtualBox on it so I can run virtual machines, so I have Windows 7 and some Ubuntu server on it as well at the moment.

I'm at about $350 with it, and frankly, other than when I have a specific need for more memory, it does just as well as my desktop.

You can get into the I3, I5 and up, and get 16gb of ram on a Lenovo T520, but they cost more.

And most likely you can use that ssd on the laptop.

Anyway, just something to put in your thinking mix...