I'll second the Lenovo kit. I picked up a Lenovo K430 last year for about a grand. My configuration is not bleeding edge and it isn't maxed out but its been able to handle what I've thrown at it, mostly Guild Wars 2 and Assassin's Creed, without a hitch. Shipped with a minimum of crapware pre-installed, and the system recovery partition does a clean installation without any extras. Those are all on a disc if you want to install some of the performance and monitoring tools. They're not necessary but they're sometimes nice to look at.
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Date: 2013-02-21 03:39 pm (UTC)The keyboard is, however, garbage.