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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krieg" data-source="post: 1584700" data-attributes="member: 5282">In all honesty I wouldn't plan on playing Half-Life 2 or Quake III on anything in the range you are looking for.Alienware's machines costing 2K+ are probably the only laptops that will be able to handle the higher end DX9 games that will coming out in the future. The Alienware machines are far more upgradeable than the average laptop. That also includes their video subsystem so in a year or so you'll be able to swap in a mobile member of the new Radeon X800 or GeForce 6800 families.Alienware's machines also use desktop P4's rather than the mobile models. That means they are typically going to have better performance, but will also run hotter & have a much shorter battery life.Personally given your needs I would try to find a machine with the Intel Centrino. It is a good chipset with excellent all around performance & designed with wireless as a priority.I've used IBM Thinkpads through work for quite some time & have been extremely happy with them. Unfortunately they also tend to be a tad pricier than the competition, and 3D video performance isn't a priority in corporate machines.</blockquote>