Well, I'm not particularly good at notebooks, but the GamePC ones look appealing, the CEN3 and 4 particularly. With a 1.5GHz P-M and Mobility 9700, it's roughly the equivalent of a desktop A64 2500+ (which doesn't exist) and Radeon 9600 Pro, which is pretty good and you're not going to get anything better without spending multithousands on it. Just be sure to upgrade the memory to 512MB, and maybe the hard drive to the 5400RPM version. Plus, they have a no dead pixel policy. Emachines also has a relatively cheap A64 notebook, with a 3200+, but the video card is much worse (Mobility 9600 64MB) and that's the main bottleneck anyways - plus the A64 has much worse thermals and battery life and such.