My only trouble with a graphics card came with the upgrade to P6 from P5. My current laptop (also an HP) has an NVIDIA GeForce FX. Unfortunately I doubt I will find a laptop where the GPU is not integrated into the chipset. The issue with P6 was that although NVIDIA had worked out the kinks with efrontier, no one has written a firmware update for this card and no one I've talked to seems to think it's their responsibility. So I'm pretty much stuck with no hardware acceleration on this machine if I want to run P6 (it crashes at boot up otherwise). For other applications I like the NVIDIA brand but because of that little quirk I'm stuck with very slow movements in the preview window. I will probably look into 7200 rpm drives but I didn't see that option on the customization page so it may be a size/power issue on laptops only get back at 5200 rpm. I'm not sure if HP was advertising this computer, but yes it is that brand. It's a zd8000 series. My current laptop has the same screen as this one I've speced out, and yes it is one of the best screens I have ever looked at. It's got such a high pixel density that really high resolution renders look spectacular. So as far as everyone knows that Turion chipset will run poser okay? I'm "downgrading" from a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 HT but as far as I can tell poser doesn't take advantage of hyper threading so I'm hoping to actually see a performance increase from a purely processor standpoint. I'm also not sure that you can compare gigahertz to gigahertz between Intel and AMD.