I've been checking out laptops at Newegg and can't help but notice the very affordable Acer laptops with the Mobility Radeon 9700 video. I'm looking into buying a new laptop to take with me on deployment that will be capable of running some decent games (HL2 possibly?). Is there better laptop graphics than the 9700?
I'm also wondering how much of a performance difference there will be between 64 and 128 mb video ram and how much difference there will be between a Pentium 4 2.8 or 3.0 and a Pentium M 1.5. This laptop will be more of a substitute desktop, so I'm thinking the Pentium 4 would be a better choice.
I don't really want to spend more than $1400 on a laptop and the ones I was checking out at Newegg looked really nice.
Please, let me in on any experiences or input you have!
Thanks.