My current brick is a Toughbook 28. For routine surfing, forums and email checks it was ok. Dead ringer for the Toughbook in the job car. Now that I'm in a teaching position at the academy I frequently need to do Powerpoints and would like to incorporate video and occaisionally live television in these presentations. It would also be nice to pull in HDTV content, as well. While I'm at it, running Battlefield 2, Doom 3, or Halflife 2.
Now, since I'm not leaving a desktop at work off my own wallet, it's going to be a notebook. I'm looking at the Sager 9880. 1920x1200 on 17" display, 600 series P4 processor, 1 GB+ 533 MHZ RAM, Nvidia Geforce 6800 Ultra 256MB graphics card, pair of 100 GB 5400 SATAs without RAID, and I'm waffling on regular XP Pro or MCE 2005 and getting integral regular TV tuner.
Really a desktop replacement I can commute with. Are there better choices that would fit the MENS? Clevo and Alienware are actually the same thing so they don't count.