I’m looking to get myself a laptop… just provisional looking, at the moment - but I am interested. I’d like to be able to code on it, do some basic mobile photo editing, watch movies, etc.

So, these specs are a minimum:

• Core 2 Duo  Processor @ 2Ghz
• 2GB RAM
• 15.4″ Screen at 1280×800-ish
• 802.11g WiFi
• 80GB HDD
• DVD-RW
• At least 3 USB Ports
• 2Hrs battery life, with reasonable usage.
• 2 Year Warranty
• Decent dedicated video card, with dedicated memory (none of this shared memory crud)
• Decent soundcard (one that doesn’t pop and hiss with every movement of the mouse)
• Vista Home Premium Licence

Preferred, however is the above with:

• 17″ Screen at 1920×1200
• 802.11a/g WiFi
• Bluetooth (2.0)
• 120GB 7200RPM HDD
• ATI Radeon X1600 or NVidia 7600 video card.
• 3 Year International Warranty

‘Course, I don’t particularly want to spend a huge amount of money (which means the 17″ screen starts to look a bit rocky).

I was looking, for a moment, at the few different “convertable” laptops which convert into a tablet PC for drawing/writing - but they seem to be limited to 13″ or there abouts, with 1024×768 screens.

Both Dell and ASUS are looking pretty good at the moment - The Dell Inspiron 9400, with a few modifications - or the ASUS G1, with an additional 1GB of RAM are both candidates at the moment.