Laptop models from Dell, HP, Lenovo and Apple are competing with each other with the best features and great prices. Most laptop reviews have raved about the new Lenovo ThinkPad W510. It has a 15.6 multi touch widescreen panel that resembles a workstation. It is compatible for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M and 1GB DDR3 discrete graphics. With 2.0 GHz Core i7 Processor's Extreme edition and 64 bit Windows 7 professional, this laptop has the best as far as OS and processor are concerned. The laptop costs around $1300 and its highlight is the ultra-response for the tasks that use heavy graphics.

Cheap Refurbished laptops could be great buys if one is looking for good features at more affordable prices.

A critical flaw with Nvidia Gpu's has caused several 1000's of laptops to malfunction from overheating problems.  This problem is not just with HP notebooks.  For instance several dell laptops have also been affected. Apparently all G84 and G86 Nvidia chips manufatured are also bad.  Which means laptops, desktops and maybe even servers could be affected if they use these chips for video processing.