Multimedia: 1) Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG, 2) Lenovo Ideapad Y460, 3) Asus N82Jv

- Best GPU u can find for a 14", so it's down to personal preference of brands and warranty. 4820TG has the overall best performance:price ratio in the group. Y460 may give better assurance to some since it's not an Acer (i know i know, some ppl are still Acer-phobic). N82Jv, though expensive, has 2yrs of int'l warranty, and the quality assurance of Asus (personally own N81Vp, really love the laptop)

CULV: 1) Acer Aspire Timeline 4810TZ, 2) Asus UL80Vt, 3) Dell Inspiron 14z

- why not UL80Vt??? to me, a CULV with integrated graphic is more than enuf, since the most demanding it needs to do is probably HD movies only. Intel GMA is sufficient for such jobs. but why UL80Vt second? due to performance:price ratio... sure Inspiron 14z is cheaper, but 4810TZ offers the same spec as well...

Value: 1) Asus K40Ie, 2) Lenovo Valueline G455, 3) Compaq CQ41-208AU

- K40Ie earns it's place for the GPU used and Asus' warranty service, though the price tag crossed the rm2k psychological line. G455 is pretty obvious. Throw in Win7 HP and it still maintains at rm2k, while still having a discrete GPU for ur daily tasks and flash games. CQ41 uses the latest offering from AMD, and Intel has nothing new that comes close in this price range. As a side note, when comes to GPGPU, AMD and NV are still ahead of Intel.