Howardporter- I am looking at lot of laptops :-) I am down to 3 now- 1choice - Toshiba Satellite S5200-902 Pentium-M4 2.4 GHZ Graphic card: 5600fx 2nd choice- Dell lattitude D800 Graphic card: Ti4200Go 3rd choice Dell Precision M50 (M60 if it comes out soon) Graphic card: Quadro 700+ (Maya approved) The biggest thing in favour of Toshiba is the screen plus I can physically go to an actuall shop when things go wrong (hopefully never) Dell M60 might change my mind if it comes out soon. I am not sure when to bite the BULLET.