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Yes, it's another "I'm off to Uni help me choose a laptop" thread, I'm afraid. But I found this: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438-G, gets rave reviews and seems to be fantastically reliable. # Intel® Pentium® M 760 2.0GHz (what does that roughly equal in terms of the P4? About 3.4Ghz?) # 1024MB DDR II # 120GB Hard Disk Drive # DVDRW Dual Layer # 17" WXGA+ wide Crystal View # Azalia codec 7.1 SPDIF Audio # 256MB nVidia Geforce GO 6800 # 802.11g Wi-Fi # Microsoft Windows XP Home My main concern is "How will it run BF2?" I think that's the most demanding software I have, I'll probably be running other games such as FarCry, Rome Total War, maybe older things like Simcity 4. I wouldn't mind a faster CPU, but to get a faster CPU with that setup means going to Dell or Rock, both of which are far too expensive. People in reviews say this machine I'm thinking of beats the Dell anyway. I'm guessing that if it can run BF2 at a good framerate with good quality graphics, it'll be fine for most things in the future. Do you reckon that laptop is "futureproof" in terms of the RAM and GFX card? I know it's got a 32-bit CPU, and people say AMD is better for gaming etc. etc. but I've always used Intel without any trouble, and they say the Turion isn't too good just now. And how well will this machine run BF2, do you think? Like I say, I'm assuming that if BF2 is fine (better than my desktop - P4 3.2Ghz, 512MB DDR, GeForce FX5200), just about everything else will be too. Any thoughts? How will BF2 and most "modern" games run in terms of quality and framerates do you think? Is it a good all-round machine? Thanks for your time, you're probably sick of threads like this, but you're such reliable, knowledgeable people I felt I had to ask you [smile]! ukdeveloper.