few criterias
not more then SGD $2000
going to be used to play mmorpgs and such games
stable wireless (yes i know acer wireless is horrible)
size/weight... (doesnt matter... i dont really care if im carrying a light laptop or a heavy one)
try not to be widescreen
windows xp (or at least an option to change... i hate vista)
prefered a red button(for examples see thinkpads) approach rather then a touchpad...
my T42 was a substandard model sold by the school -.- if they sell 1.8GHz my school was selling 1.7GHz and if other people had 1 GB of ram we only got 512MB... so yep help me make a decision please :) thx