I will say that Dell actually does make nice laptops. Buy one of their Pentium M laptops and it will be faster than most Pentium 4's (since more GHZ != more speed) at most things, run for rediculous amounts of time (9 hour battery) and not cost as much. I've got a inspiron 600m with 1.6Ghz Pentium M, 512 and a radeon 9200 with 64M ram. It runs UT2004 pretty well, and anything newer just fine. It works great for what I really need which is battery life and connectivity and now costs less than $1500 with even better specs.
If you just want a desktop replacement, go with one of those Toshiba behemoths that have 17 inch screens and radeon 9700 or better video cards. But if you actually want a laptop to carry around, go for a a pentium M by Dell or IBM.
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