New laptop

[KukriKhan]

NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT 3D graphics card with 512MB VRAM

Half-a-Gig of Vid memory will play all of today's games, and most of next year's, probably. Being a laptop, your issue will be heat-dispersion (as you already know, being a previous lappy-owner). If it turns out to be a 'hot potato', Amazon will take it back within 14 days - so I'd try to burn it up in the first 3-4 days, if I were you. Fire up CPU and V-card intensive apps all at the same time, and see if it crashes/distorts or strains under heat.

Economy-wise, looks like pretty good bang-for-the-buck, to me.

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What kinda wine did your old lappy drink? Cheap stuff, one hopes.