I went for the Alienware 17i I7 Dual Core 2.8ghz 6mb cache, 4gb ram (i have 2x4gig sticks waiting to go in it when it arrives to take it up to 8gb of ram) 1 TB hard drive dual 1gb nivida 260m graphic cards and then all the usual laptop things, bluetooth etc etc! I have all the software ready to go on it as soon as I get it! Cant wait should be a good machine