Dell makes a good laptop. I have the Inspiron 9300. I have read some really good reviews on it when it's equipped with the nVIDIA GeForce GO 6800 card. One review said it would take almost any game with the graphics turned all the way up. You can get up to 2gb of DDR2 dual channel RAM @ 533MHz. I've done some benchmarking with my 1gb and it's really fast.