I hope you dont care at all about the battery life and are going to have it plugged in all the time.
The one you are looking at looks like it uses a desktop processor and while that will be a little faster than mobile processors it will also suck more juice right from the battery.
I just recently bought a laptop and I wanted something with a UXGA resolution so that limited my choices quite a bit (why have a big laptop screen when you can only use 1024X768?) I ended up with a dell Inspiron 8600. It is a widescreen 15.4" and I was not sure if I wanted widescreen when I bought it but now that I have it I love the widescreen and the high resolution.
I also wanted decent battery life so I got a 1.5 Ghz Pentium M processor (check out the benchmarks on the M vs the 4M before you decide you need the fastest processor Ghz around The M does pretty will against pentium 4M processors clocked a little higher).
My laptop gets about 4 hours of battery life with just the standard battery and if I remove the CD-ROM drive and put in the other battery I can get about 7 hours total. This is just doing normal homework type of stuff and if you are playing the latest and greatest games your battery life will be a lot less.
I have played Need For Speed Underground without any problems on this laptop.
