I know this is a tablet forum but it's also one of the most tech savvy sites I belong to.
So my Laptop died a painful death on the weekend, wife decided it needed a bath while it was running.(glass of water) So I'm in the market for a new one just don't know what yet. My old one (Dell 640m) was a great laptop had no intention of replacing it any time soon as it did everything I wanted it to. The really nice thing I found it did (for me anyway) was the 7pin svid type port actually allowed me to run Component video and 5.1 out to my HDTV. So I never had to stream or convert any files just ran them off the laptop.

Anyway anything that is comparable with it would be great just don't want to buy junk either. Here's a few I looked at yesterday but again not sure thought I'd get some advise, maybe there's something way better coming or out that I haven't seen.
Dell XPS Acer 3810T (<-price was $699 CND for the Acer)
The reason these two grabbed my attention was the HDMI out, so I can still use to connect to my HDTV or HD projector.
Any help or advise would be great, thanks.

Clinton