I have this laptop, bought another 1 gig, put in a 8mb 7200 rpm hd, and it outperforms my desktop xp3000, 9600xt 1.5gig, quad 8mb's... suprisingly enough.
I use it for everything now. =) Renders and Encodes quite a bit faster.
There's only 1 laptop that games better, and thats the Sager/Alienware manufacturers, which is mainly because of hte higher clockable vid card.
CPU tests show this rocks it. =)