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Dalton wrote:Thank you all for your opinions. I have decided to hold off on a laptop system for now. However, this one I can get for about $800 because of the rebate. Would that change any opinions?

Their QA has problems - I know some people with Alienware laptops and no end of trouble. However, this weekend the ThinkPad will be sold at Office Depots for prices as low as $799 (IIRC), so they may well fit your budget.

Tatsumi wrote:Your best bet, if you dont know what you are doing, is to buy the parts seperately, and go to somewhere like best buy or comp usa and have them build the computer for you.

Kinda hard to do that for a laptop.

For my current computer (which I've had for approaching 2 and a half years, now, and still running great with a handful of minror upgrades), I just took a higher-end Alienware system, and slavishly copied every spec, but bought it from a different retailer, saving almost $1500, by my final estimation.

And as a result I could run Doom 3 with graphics turned almost all the way up and no lag when it came out.