Great machines (as is the E7450, same thing basically, but 14"). No longer being sold new by Dell directly; they've gone over entirely to the E7270/E7470 which is not a big difference for most users.

For the person asking the question, I'd recommend the 14" ones -- they're not really much different in price, and still (if just barely) at his weight target and he did say "the bigger the better"

New it would probably have been out of his price range in a decent config (or maybe just barely in budget if he did a RAM and SSD upgrade himself), and the E7270 and E7470 certainly are. OTH, there are a ton of the E7250 and E7450 refurbished on outlet, and definitely in budget for an i5 config if he waits for one of the extremely-frequent sales (twitter @delloutlet is the best way to watch for those), and there are also a whole bunch still out there in retail (both refurb and new remaining stock.)

Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...Q&gclsrc=aw.ds