[Joe Ross]

I'm going to follow up a lot on what Ryan said.

You left off the most important specs when evaluating laptops: weight, battery life and warranty.

Plan on getting a warranty for as long as you plan to keep the laptop, since you can't fix anything that breaks yourself. Get the manufacturers warranty, not an extended warranty from best buy, circuit city, etc.

I'm pretty sure #1 and #2 have the ultra reflective screen, based on the names. I haven't liked it when I've seen it, but others I know have.

Don't plan on running 64bit windows on the athlon64 laptops unless it comes preloaded. Very likely the driver support won't be available. It's hard enough to upgrade the OS on a normal laptop, let alone going to a completely new architecture.