Laptop spec check pretty please

[samsmi584]

I will be using for the following (in order of amount):
Photoshopping
Playing movies (hence the 17", but also because the 17" takes 2 SATA)
Music & browsing interwebs
Microsoft Office
Occasional bit of gaming
Storing a lot of music/photos/videos (hence the SSD for OS & programs and seperate HD for files)

Just wanted to check that with this budget I'm not shooting myself in the foot with anything. My theory is if I play anything down it should be the RAM as I can always just get another 8GB stick to plug in if need be (or am I stupid for thinking it's that simple?) Having a capable graphics card for when I do game is fairly important as I want to be able to enjoy it when I do do it.

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4810MQ (2.80GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X IMPACT 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 870M - 6.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
Wireless/Wired Networking
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1202 WIRELESS GAMING 802.11N + BLUETOOTH 4.0

Price with 3 year gold warranty and 1 year dead pixel is £1,413.00.

Any advice on changes before I make my move?

Thanks for looking

 

[keynes]

Looks good, you could consider Kingston SSD instead. You also have the choice of upgrading the warranty from silver to gold 3 months before it expires (in 9 months time) so you could just stick to silver for now and upgrade other bits instead

 

[samsmi584]

Looks good, you could consider Kingston SSD instead. You also have the choice of upgrading the warranty from silver to gold 3 months before it expires (in 9 months time) so you could just stick to silver for now and upgrade other bits instead

Thanks Keynes.

Do you know if there is much difference in performance? I honestly just went for the Samsung as it had the extra 10GB, and showed as having better speed specs. Good idea about the warranty, didn't know you could do that....

 

[keynes]

There were reports of performance issues with Samsung SSDs

 

[samsmi584]

There were reports of performance issues with Samsung SSDs

Thanks I will have to have a look into that.