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I've been haunting this forum for a few days now, at least enough time for me to realize that everyone here knows much, much more than I do -- or that I really don't know much at all.

Anywhoo,

I'm going to be spending a year in Japan, and I need a laptop for classes and assorted schoolwork, and the occasional videogame. I have a budget of about $2000. Pretend this is your money... What do you buy? Links are preferred, but system stats are quite helpful as well.

I'm not sure the compatibility errors I'll run into over in the Land of the Rising Sun, so I'm not sure what constraints I should offer up; thus, information about those would also be helpful.

But, the point is: you have $2000 to design a laptop.

What do you do?

What do you do?

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