Looking for advice on a new laptop

I'm in the market to upgrade from my old latitude d800. I want to keep it as far under $1,000 as possible, the overall size doesn't matter though I'm not looking for a monster to lug around. I'm basically looking for a laptop to do work (3d modeling, photoshop, programming, some level design) and occaisonal gaming at min settings. So pretty much COD4 on low is as intensive as I need to go.

I'm looking at at least 160 gig drive in it with some good cpu/gpu power. Reading through the forums here and elsewhere it seems like the 8600m gt is a good buy.

Searching through some sites the most promising one that I've run across is this one at Newegg. It seems to fit the bill well, but I've never heard of the company before, though the reviews on newegg are good. Thoughts?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834210015

CPU
CPU Type Intel Core 2 Duo
CPU Speed T5850(2.16GHz)
CPU FSB 667MHz
CPU L2 Cache 2MB

Graphics
GPU/VPU NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Video Memory Dedicated 512MB
Graphic Type Dedicated Card

Hard Drive
HDD 250GB
HD Interface SATA

Memory
Memory Speed DDR2 667
Memory 4GB