Gotta buy a new lap top....thoughts?

[TexasSP]

To me, the SSD's are too high priced to be worth it at this point. They are fast and almost impervious to damage though. Don't think you really need or would benefit from RAID with what you described. There are also hybrid drives which are faster than standard but much less costly than SSD.

Asus are okay, but to me they still need to prove themselves a little more. I have seen them have issues.

Make sure to get 6-8 gb of memory and a 1gb or better graphics card and you will be okay on that front. At least a core I5 or I7 and you will be rocking!