2,000 dollars

I chose a laptop because I already have adesktop that does what i need it to do school work wise. I need something more portable for gaming and such. I also wanted a mac (always been a mac fan but saddened by their lack of compatable games) so when they put the intel core duo in and im able to run windows on a mac im happy. It means I can continue being a level 90 Jedi. I would also be able to start editing video and such so I could start helping make the video section of my improv comedy team's website more full. At the moment we only have one video up and it is quite old and poorly edited. I found the computer at the apple website, its the basic package of the MacBook Pro but it does the job I need it to. I also chose it because its better than my twin sisters macbook. spec are as follow:
15-inch
2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1440 x 900 resolution
2GB memory
120GB hard drive1
8x double-layer SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 128MB SDRAM
cost $1,999.00

(was tempted to buy a cheap emachine and spend the rest on star wars miniatures but oh well)