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Audigy 2 ZS pcmcia sound card and a set of 5.1 surround sound headphones for a better movie and gaming experience.

NFSMW, HL2, Far Cry, COD2, FEAR, GRAW On XPS Gen2, 2GHz, 2MB Ram, Go7800GTX GRAW cooks my gfx card at hi screen res, forcing it to throttle back, makes gameplay a little jittery.

All mobile GPUs are under clocked (v desktop equivalent) and yes, because of the cooling limitations of notebook form factor (that is all notebooks). You are lucky to have selected a Dell, because there a lots of owners willing to risk crapping their system to stretch the capabilities of the...

http://www.rockdirect.com/viewNotebook.php?pName=XTREME%20SL%20PRO As above, but with dual 7950 and 20" screen

If he's a gamer, he may appreciate Audigy 2 ZS sound card.

Check with an Acer rep, I think you'll find the answer is no.

Get yourself over to the Dell site and configure yourself a M1710 with T7600 Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, 512MB Go7900GTX, 100GB 7200rpm HDD, 8x DVD +/- RW. Wireless etc. It should come out under $4k. Then phone Dell and try and haggle $1k off. If they won't reduce it enough, go to the link below...

Sony SZ is worth looking into. Beautiful screen, very light, long battery life. May have to stretch your budget a couple of hundred $$

Again, yes. They work out more expensive, trail a little at the highest end and have fewer upgrade options. But for me, it is well worth it for the portable flexibility and space/wire savings.

http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm Notebook Hardware Control - change CPU voltage, adjust fan ON and OFF temps and more.

It really is a 'lifestyle' product. There are better mobile solutions if you are looking for high end graphics or gaming performance. If you're looking for a neat, well specced PC, without the cabling that goes with desktops, to accomplish most common needs this looks a great piece of kit...

Putting a 7800gtx into the e1505 will take a bit of modification. Easier option would be upgrade to 7900gs (should drop straight in) and has ability to o/c equal or beyond 7800gtx

Just throw a 7800gtx in there and another 1GB ram stick, you'll be able to play games at high settings for quite a while to come.

At that price point there is a lot of competition in the UK and not such great savings to be made from importing. He should be able to configure a Dells i6000 or Acer for similar price to US.

If it's feasible, I'd go for the best gfx card possible, take less ram and slower hard drive. Ram is cheap to upgrade (not dell - go with newegg) and easy to install. Hard drive partitioning, especially 100GB, will compensate for slower access speed, which is minimal anyway. Assuming you are...