Which laptop would be faster?

There are too many variables, and your question isn't properly defined.

Which is faster, is the Core 2 Duo, the video card won't make a bit of difference in that. You need to add some sort of condition to gaming or rendering if the GPU is factoring inot it, then you should also note the app you are using as some will utilize the 2 cores and some it won't make a bit of differnce to.

A Turion isn't Sli just because it is a Turion, the system would need to be Sli. So if we are talking baout 1 video card vs. another, the 7900 GS is probably a faster/better card.

A Core 2 Duo would wipe the floor with a Turion CPU vs. CPU, that you are right.

You may want to go to my page and check out the Mobile GPU comparison page and the COre Duo & Turion page, it is in the menu under SPECIFICATIONS

Thats the problem. I'm not sure which one would be faster. The core 2 duo would give better cpu power, and the 7900 gs would give better gpu... LOL

And about getting both...

I looked at the inspiron line for a good while until i found out it's made of plastic. heh, one good drop and it's dead.

I could go for a XPS, but my budget is around $2000 for a gaming laptop and the good XPS model is $3400....

That;'s about $500 more then my budget for a laptop

The thing is, while I have 4 high powered pcs, and a total of 17 pcs (I even have a tandy 1000 and a couple commodore 64s!), I'm not super huge on laptops. maybe I'll get that way, but the budget isn't going over $2000 for now.

Good luck.

Why don't you come back to the forum and post your experience an a month or so with that Alienware.

See your PM. I can't directly sell on Tom's, they don't like it.