Difficult choice between 2 vaios!! Help me out?!

Basically- i like the ar51e because of its larger screen and cheaper price, however not too sure about the graphics card. On the other hand, the FZ21S has a faster chip better graphics card but a smaller screen.

I will be wanting to play games (pro evo (bioshock ..maybe...) on this machine, so im not sure, size or GPU??
Is it worth paying that much more for a smaller screen and better graphics or go for the bigger screen and sitty graphics??

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Sony VAIO FZ21S T7500 200GB £950

T7500 (2.20 GHz and 800 MHz FSB) and Intel® PRO/Wireless 802.11a/b/g/n Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (English version) 200 GB Serial ATA 5400 rpm hard disk drive 2 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM (21024 MB), maximum 4 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM - in the case of 4GB, a portion of the system memory over 3GB might not be available to the operating system 15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800) Widescreen X-black LCD screen with double lamp technology NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GS graphics processing unit with Total Available Graphics Memory of 1023 MB and dedicated Video Memory of 256 MB Blu-ray Disc™ Combo drive (BD-ROM/DVD±RW/±R DL/RAM) Built-in 'Motion Eye' Digital Camera (30 frames per second, 1.3 Mega Pixels) with Motion Picture Function (max. resolution (pixels) SXGA/12801024/raw data) Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n; Bluetooth® technology

Sony VAIO AR51E C2D/T7250 2GB £821

T7250 (2.00 GHz and 800 MHz FSB) and Intel® PRO/Wireless 802.11a/b/g Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (English version) 200 GB Serial ATA 4200 rpm hard disk drive 2 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM (2 x 1024 MB), maximum 4 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM - in the case of 4GB, a portion of the system memory over 3GB might not be available to the operating system 17" WXGA+ (1440 x 900) widescreen X-black LCD NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GT graphics processing unit with Total Available Graphics Memory of 895 MB and dedicated Video Memory of 128 MB

 

anyone got any advice? .. or should i go for a pc for the equivalent price??

 

also what is the performance of the 8600M GS card in the FZ regarding games? can it run bioshock?

 

Have you considered the asus g1s at all? If you want a 15" gaming laptop thats the way to go I think. (Yes I know it has ugly lights).

 

thats a bit of out my price range.. i also wanted to know if the FZ and AR are santa rosa based chipsets?

 

bump........................!