Hey!

I'm Eion and I'm having a bit of trouble picking a laptop. I'm planning on going to uni next year (if they will take me ) and I'm thinking that a new laptop will be better than the system I built three years ago. The computer I built, when I was fourteen, cost me nearly a whole years paper run money ($800 worth of slave labour) to give me this: AMD Athlon 64 2X 4200+ OC @ ~2.7 GHz, Ninvida 7600GT, 3GB Ram 2x1024kb 2x512kb. This system manages to do everything I want it to, but transporting it is just impractical, hence my want of a laptop.

At the moment i can afford roughly $1500, but i am hoping to spend $1300 to obtain a system of equal performance as the one above (shouldn't be hard :) ).

Anyway I'll stop rambling and get to the point. This system
(http://www.xpcomputers.co.nz/product-hp_pavilion_dv6_2109ax_amd_m320_3gb_320_15.6_w7_prem-10062)
Is what I want, i can get this for $1300 at Harvey Normans but it is a display model. Would you do it?

That is the kind of thing I am looking for, my main interest is the fact it's AMD and the GPU in it isn't half bad.

I have also seen.

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=391682

Looks about right to me but these are just serving suggestions.

What would you go for in my shoes? one above? something else? or give up because you're a broke 17 year old dreaming?

Cheers
Eion