Alienware Area-51 m9750

Game on.

The Alienware Area-51 m9750 is arguably the best gaming notebook (or video-editing notebook, or music-creation notebook) you can buy. It has two of everything-dual-core processor, twin Nvidia GPUs, two hard drives-for the best performance we've seen to date. Splurge for the 17-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200-pixel resolution) display for true HD playback from the optional Blu-ray optical drive. And for bulletproof data integrity and top throughput, go with the available 32GB or 64GB solid-state drives, and combine it with a traditional hard drive in the second bay for deep storage.

Quick Specs: 2.33-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7600, 4GB of RAM, dual 512MB Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX graphics, 64GB solid-state drive, 200GB 7,200-rpm hard drive