$1500 budget gaming laptop

1_What is your budget? $1500

2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15.4 or larger

3_What screen resolution do you want? Preferably 1680x1050

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Desktop replacement since its 15.4 or bigger

5_How much battery life do you need? Not a issue

6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? games like Call of Duty 4, Crysis, Call of Duty 5,

7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.) Just web surfing and music, will also use it as a gps Also will use it to play 1080p videos on tv

8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need? Doesn't matter, would probably replace HDD with ssd drives, would like laptop to support raid 0

9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them. Doesn't matter

10_How long do you want to keep your laptop? At least 1 year

11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them. 4gb of ram would be nice, although I can live with 2gb as long as its upgradeable. 64bit Vista would be nice too, although dont let that stop you from suggest other os computer or no os at all.

12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. Nvidia graphics and a Intel C2D processor because ive become so used to them.

13_What country do you live in? USA

List of specs ranked by priority
1 GPU- Would like a NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS or better, can live with worse.
2 CPU
3 Memory- 2gb or better, maybe upgradeable
4 Raid0 support
5 Resolution

Also, what are some more expensive laptops that might drop in price to around $1500 within 6 months?

Seconded, both choices.

Pretty hard to beat the 5793 at that price. Just bought one for $1298 shipped to my door. Well worth the money.