If you can get this setup...I highly recommend it.

DesktopPC for gaming and other things. Portables...always stay mac. Games are OK...not great..but getting better. But video card issues will arise within the first year and a half of ownership. Some of the Alienware laptops provide 256MB of video ram. Apple is still ONLY topping out at 128MB. But if you go with a PC Dektop and a Apple PB (no ibook) then you will be very happy. Just my 2 cents.

Aloha.