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Originally Posted by Rl'Halsinor

I have to agree with the wise advice Thanee and tenkar have given here. If this is going to be primarily for schooling then you want a larger laptop. 14" to 15" should be plenty. And unless you have a boat load of cash, gaming isn't really a main stay of laptops. You have to shell out some serious $ for a gaming laptop.

Cash has very little to do with it. A video card good enough for cutting-edge games, and/or a large enough and high enough resolution screen will not fit in the power requirements of a reasonably portable laptop. "Gaming Laptops" are luggable, not portable; there's no possible way you could use them in coach class airplane seat.

Originally Posted by Rl'Halsinor

2. Make sure your system has at least two gigs of RAM especially with Vista. Vista loves RAM.

Get at least 4. Upgrading RAM on notebooks is a pain, memory is cheap, and you'll never regret having too much cheap RAM.

Originally Posted by Rl'Halsinor

4. Stay away from Intel's Pentium Dual Core systems because they run HOT.

Cite? Intel's Pentium Dual Core CPUs (and single and dual-core Celeron CPUs, for that matter) are just lower clock speed / smaller cache / slower FSB versions of the Core 2 Duo. If a Pentium Dual Core laptop runs hot, it's probably due to that individual laptop's design, not the CPU (unless they were seriously cutting corners by putting a desktop part in a notebook).