I'm starting to think a fully fledged M1730 or Rock/Alienware is overkill (And I can spend the 1,200 I'd save on another lens for my camera.)
Anyway, the one laptop from Sony which has caught my eye is the VGN-AR61ZU - with blueray DVD R/W it is even more attractive...
Only query I have is about the graphics performance - but having said that my current laptop has an 8600 card as well but with only 256MB of memory... does anyone know whether the 8600 GT is more or less powerful than the 8600 GS?
(I'm a systems engineer working on computer systems, but as they're for the military we lag about 4 generations behind the commercial world and so I've lost track of graphics cards)