well now that i am back working after taking 3 months off i am planning on
getting a new pc, this time just a gaming laptop, tired off the old desktop.

i'm probably just gonna go for a dell xps, heres the specs......

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Edition, (oh gay vista)
MEMORY 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz edit
HARD DRIVE Speed: 250GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive Free Fall Sensor edit
GRAPHICS CARD NVIDIA®GeForce®8700M GT graphics
OPTICAL DRIVE Blu-ray Disc Combo (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM)
WIRELESS CARD Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini Card
BATTERY OPTIONS 80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Prim
SOUND OPTIONS High Definition Audio 2.0
PHYSICS ACCELERATOR AGEIA™ PhysX™ Physics Accelerator

its either a bluray burner or 512MB Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® 8700M GT with NVIDIA® SLI® Te , which should i go with????
anyways i am off to work and i will read your opinions later, ciao

Well I doubt a Blu-Ray burner will be much use in a laptop of all thins but then again the 8700 isnt going to be any 8800 even in sli, bearing in mind the 8700 is an overclocked 8600, it might be better to try and get one with an 8800m or just stay with a single card.

the only other option is a single 8700 or NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual GeForce® 8800M GTX with
1GB GDDR3 Memory which will bump it up 2 $3000, hmmmmm choices

I plan on keeping this thing long term so i want to make sure everything
will last for a few good years so i don't care if it costs me $3500 bucks.
I just want to be sure, and i appreciate your guys advice!