I bought an ASUS for sick gaming capabilities. Overall a sweet laptop, although they have stupid keyboard filters that skip letters if I type too fast. I disabled them, but then my touchpad stopped locking when I had an external mouse plugged in...
That's my biggest complaint. The 4 gigs of DDR2 memory on 64bit vista, Cenrino 2 mobile processor and Nvidia Gforce 9800mobile work well with everything.
My next laptop will be a Lenovo though. We use one as our Motec tuning laptop at school... awesome machine.