Best Laptop?

[omgsoup]

right, so i figure i'll get a laptop in time for college (fall of 2003), and i was wondering what to get (in terms of which brand, i know the type of specs i want). i've heard dell and tosihba are good, maybe an alienware. i'm going to go for the best laptop avalible (well, as long as its not much more than $3,000).

 

[jawshoouh]

alienware area-51m = $2652.00

some specs:
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 2.4GHz
400MHz FSB w/ 512KB Cache
Hi-Performance Heatsink/CPU Cooling Fan
Intel® 845MP+ICH3M Chipset - FC-PGA 478PIN
DDR 512MB DDR PC-2100 - Two SO-DIMMs
40GB IBM Travelstar 5400 RPM ATA100
ATI Mobility RADEON 7500 64MB DDR
Sound-Blaster Compatible 3D Audio
3.5 3-Mode Floppy Disk Drive
8X DVD / 8x4x24 CD-RW w/ Software MPEG2 Decoder
Integrated 10/100Mb Ethernet NIC
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional

 

[Taurus]

Dell Inspiron 8200 with a 2GHz P4, Geforce4 Go 440, ultra sharp screen, burner/dvd combo drive, lots of other stuff... and highly customizable. between $2000 and $3000.