In terms of what you are doing with your laptop, it is hard to really top its performance. Going with a quad core i7 with 1600mhz ram and SSD will net you more gains over all. Most laptops with more than 8GB support are going to be geared towards gaming and be heavy as fuc. The lighter you go the less potential performance you will have. DISREGARD THAT I SUCK DIX
You may want to check out
Sager laptops. They do a custom build per customer. The
NP2252 series might be a good starting point.
Go to link, select the following upgrades:
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.40GHz
IC Diamond 7 Thermal Compound - CPU
w/e OS u want
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB
512GB Crucial M4 Series SATA3 Solid State Disk Drive
It is a 15.6" LED so I would assume it is around 5-7 lbs.
should be around 1300