Ok. So your looking to purchase a laptop for education and gaming. You also said your doing some editing right? And if I'm not mistaken you probably play other games such as Runescape with possibly better graphics right? Than you might want to purchase something with a fast processer, good graphics card, as well as as someone else mentioned, a laptop with long time battery power. I was thinking DELL but you already checked. But if I'm not mistaken can't you customize it the way you want? I get magazine advertisements and I read around and saw you could get it customized. Anyways if you don't want that, than I say go witha Toshiba. I'm not exactly familiar with their products but I've gotten many good reviews from computer experts. Well I'm not sure if this is going to help, but it's just a suggestion. Thanks, Paladin05 8-) (By the way, wasn't the Alien computer company taken over by Dell. I mean like didn't they buy the company out?) :?: