Actually i thought of having laptop for work and desktop for gaming another alternative is to buy Macbook Pro so i dont have to buy a desktop

Tried running COD4. Can run,can play until 3rd stage. Died lol!   Have 2 say, if I tweak it all the way up during the 1st 2 missions,its pretty smooth.  Back to playing old games haha! Dont even think bout running Crysis, more like SIMCITY or the SIMS 2. Oh and dont even bother running anything on Bootcamp. Nothing works! 

Acer ugly is understandable, they target at low income buyers. But saying that BenQ S42 is ugly, you have very high standard, and you're not a Malaysian at heart. I find that some Sony and Toshiba notebooks can be uglier than Acer, especially the lower end models, but again, those are targeted at the same crowd as Acer. As to whether a notebook is shit, it is all in the glorious feeling you get when you're using it. I've been on Macs, desktop and notebook, for a good while now, and friend, I don't get that. Some may be enticed by Apple design, but to me it just looks a little bland. It's basically still the same boring design since the iBook days. Where's the innovation in this MacBook you speak of? Of course, the Nvidia 9400M video chip. Is it faster than notebooks with 8600M, such as BenQ S41 that's selling for 2699? No. Is it even close? Hardly. So, have fun with 5-20FPS Crysis framerate. And remember, this is at low to medium setting--mostly low actually, and at a screen size of 800x600.

Well Windows laptops are cheaper now averaging at RM 2800 some with integrated 3d card or basic ATI cards which are on par with the 9400M....however, their design are simple and using plastic makes the laptop looks cheap and ugly. Moreover, I am having too much headache with the Vista....always crash and stupid pop ups when you first on the bloody laptop! I believe Macbooks are much moer stable and able to serve for many years to come rather than PCs which average around 2-3 years of lives!