Narrowed down to these two notebooks..

I'm primarily using this laptop for school (IS major) however after playing games so long I always want the more powerful option.

The first laptop is the HP DV6707US. I can get it for $580 after rebates. It uses the AMD X2 TK-57 processor.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] k=dv6707us

The second is a gateway T2330. And, yea you guessed it it uses the Intel "dual-core" T2330. It's very plain looking compared to the HP and lacks media center features. I can get it for $550 out the door.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834101123

Both come with 2GB memory.

I'm mainly going to be multitasking between web surfing, programming (VB+, VS2005, etc) and most likely the basic music and maybe even some old, outdated game playing. I'm looking for basically which laptop would preform/look better. I've generally heard the T2330 is the better of the two. I WILL be using Vista.

Your opinions matter! Thanks.