Need Some Notebook Help

[IggyWH]

I've been shopping around for a notebook for a while now but I'm still relatively clueless to notebooks. Desktops I know but that knowledge doesn't always work for notebooks.

I go out of town frequently and looking for something to take with me so I can play poker. Not looking for anything special but I also can't deal with a el cheapo that's gonna be slow as balls. I ran across these 3 today and I was wondering if you could give me your opinions on them. Decent price? Decent computer? Can I do better?

Here's the links to them :

Aspire AS3003WLCi Notebook ~ $600

Aspire AS1691WLMi-XPH Notebook ~ $800

Compaq Presario Notebook PC (M2305NR) ~ $650

Any help is much appreciated on this. I leave this Tuesday for Kentucky but will be back Friday so I don't HAVE to pull the trigger right now but I'll be sent back out next Sunday then so it would be nice to get something soon.

Thanks,
Iggy!

[dseiko]

I don't really know anything about laptops either, but i did notice that the first laptop has only a 90 minute battery, whereas the other two have 210 and 180 minutes. You could of course always buy a new battery, but i thought id just point that out.

[Sniper]

Hi Ig,

Your primary consideration for a traveling poker playing laptop should be screen resolution, assuming you intend to multitable.

[IggyWH]

I do intend on multi-tabling but overlap doesn't bother me at all. Especially now with the smaller party tables, I don't need some 17" screen or anything like that.

[excession]

for poker best budget buy would be dell 6000 series (15.4" widescreen) with at least 1600x1200 screen res (usual pick is the 1900x1200 WUXGA)

that way you can play 4 tables without overlap on almost all sites