eMachines M6805. I'm generally not an eMachines fan, but I'll admit when they have a killer laptop at a great price. It's an Athlon 64 laptop with a widescreen, Radeon 9600, etc, etc. Best Buy has them for about $1250 (after rebates) till the end of the month. If I hadn't just bought a new desktop (I was too lazy to build one...), I probably would have bought one of these.

http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=eMachines_M6805

BTW, check out some smaller name brands. Sager makes high quality laptops (in fact, Alienware slaps their name on some Sager laptops and marks the price up). I have a friend with one and he's been very happy with it.

http://www.powernotebooks.com