I would greatly appreciate everybody's opinion in this matter. At the end of August, I will be starting college and will need a laptop. I won't have a desktop so the laptop will need to be a workhorse. Size will not be a factor and battery life wont be either. I'll just buy a couple of extra batteries for that. I will be using it for gaming so it needs to have top of the line components. As far as price goes, the sky is the limit. I have been looking at the Dell XPS and the Alienware Area 51m(upgradable graphics), but I am open to any suggestions. Thanks