Processor is slower than mine or the OPs; and the graphics are much weaker than mine.

Nice price tag, but if you can afford >$1000 you should go for that.

Does battery life matter at all? I read a review of a gateway system with a 9800 under it hood that manages *hold ur breath* 3 hrs of battery life

Once you get to "gaming" laptops, battery life tends to be rubbish across the board. Whichever you choose, you should only play games when plugged into the wall. The advantage of a laptop is that that wall can be anywhere.

If you go to a laptop with reasonable battery life it won't even launch Crysis.

oh yea totally i agree and usual gaming laptops have what.. under an hour or 2 of battery life? this one by gateway had a really good battery though..

edit : heres the link :

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/gateway-fx-p-7805u/4505-3121_7-33496191.html?tag=mncol;lst

@ sol, the one I posted has 1 gig DDR3 Vram, the one you posted has 512MB. What makes the one you posted have twice as fast of a GPU?

VRAM is marketing hype. Having more doesn't generally increase performance, especially in the kind of cards that laptops get. What makes it faster is architecture and design (which can't be quantified with a number, only with benchmarks).

My logic was that the desktop 4850 is roughly equivalent to the mobile one and is about as fast as the GTS250 in benchmarks, and the mobile 9800 is half of a GTS250 by number of cores. So the mobile 4850 is theoretically twice as fast, in practice a little less.

Ahh I see. Well thanks for the find. I think I am going to get the one you suggested. :D From what I am reading, it will be perfect for what I want. It will pwn most older games, and will play even crysis @ high settings 20-30 FPS(which is plenty for me, worst case I lower it down to med, IDC.

@sol how good is the wifi card in the one you posted? I should have mentioned that I need a really good one

Yes,buy it.

Aren't you supposed to do work and not play games when at work? You might get busted by the boss.