Have had a streak of extremely good luck with Fujitsu - after having bought several additional power packs for my first one I bought 3 other which could re-use those. Half biz, half personal line with an added USB3 Card for the last 2, all with non-glare (albeit not-too-high res) screens and external monitor plugged in. Exchanged DVD to SSD in one of them.

Today I would probably pick one of the SurfacePro clones - targeting USB3 or ESDI, exchangeable battery and space on SSD with an I5 and RAM so that upgrading does not force you to chuck smaller memory.

HTH

thomas

>My laptop is flaking out, any ideas on a new one? Of course it must run VFP9.
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>1. Looking to run many hours on batteries, like 4-8 hours
>2. CD/DVD, better if external
>3. Someway to plug in a big 24” monitor, like a video port or other method
>4. Windows 7, preferable 64 bit pro. Hearing bad things about windows 8 & tablets
>5. I like Dell but other brands are OK