Personally, I like the Asus F3Jv (http://www.asus.com.au/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=26&l3=316&l4=0&model=1357&modelmenu=1). Has nice features, one of the fastest laptop processors you can get right now Core2Duo T7200, 1gb of RAM, Geforce Go 7600, etc. ~$2000...