Help with laptop

[gundam789]

I would like to buy a laptop but i don`t know wich one to get=/
At first i was looking at the new MacBook Pro`s but honestly i don`t know if i want to spend 4200$( canadian) on this laptop when i can get one for much cheaper with better specs. I think prices at Apple are out of control on this notebooks.
Right now i am looking at the new Sony Vaio AW series it comes with :

Intel T9600
Vista ultimate 64 bit
8 GB DDR2-SDRAM
628 GB (Dual 128GB Solid State Drive with a 500GB SATA Hard Disk Drive [4200rpm])
Blu-ray Disc Read and Write Drive
XBRITE-FullHD(1920x1080) with Adobe RGB color management
TV tuner
Nvidia 9600M GT

All of this i can get for 3700$ much cheaper then an MBP with a lot more to offer.
What you guys think of this laptop or any other suggestions?

[SoulsCollective]

Intended usage?

[gundam789]

Watching movies , photo editing and casual gaming ( mostly WoW online).

[SoulsCollective]

Far, far, far overpowered for what you want to do with it. To put that in perspective, my laptop is a tiny EeePC 700, with a single-core Celeron M at 600MHz, and it handles H.264 720p playback perfectly fine, and can run UT2k4, System Shock II, Deus Ex, WarCraft III, etc. Not very well, but I'm merely putting it out there that you can do what you want to do with a hell of a lot less than what you've specced out.

By all means, if you want a beast of a machine the price/performance on that model looks hard to beat (although the 9600M isn't that good as far as laptop graphics goes), but if as you seem to be doing by not getting the Mac Pro you want to cut down on price then for what you want to do the hardware inside that Vaio will be completely wasted.

For what you want to do, I'd be looking at a T7-series, maybe 8- if you can find a good price, 2GB RAM with slots free to move to 4GB (you can always upgrade for cheaper than the premium they charge you), a 9600M, 9800 if you can find it, single HDD at about 250GB, and be expecting to pay about AUD $2.5k, which would work out to USD $2k.