Im getting a laptop

[Jason1]

And I need suggestions. After much consideration, I have decided not to get a Mac. I know this will dissapoint some of you. But for those of you that have windows based laptops (or even if you dont but know something about them), I would like your help. Im looking in the sub-1000 dollar range. I will be using it for school mostly, but I dont want something thats a slouch, I would like it to at least be able to play some game, so that means no integrated graphics. Hopefully I can find something for this price range with all that, and at least a 100 Gig hard drive and 1 Gig ram.

Anyways, whats the best mobile processor out there right now? Is it the intel core 2 duo? What about ATI's offerings? Browsing neweggs website makes me sick because off all the options.

But, now that you get a general idea of what im looking for, give me some advice. Is there a good website to buy one off of besides newegg? Are there some things that I should definatley try to avoid?