Rate my Dell Laptop: Can I do better with another brand or deal?

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Hi all-- I've always preferred Desktops to Laptops and my standard rig at home is 3 20" 204Bs with an aging sempron and crappy motherboard with XP that is fine for poker and quite a few games. Recently, girlfriend has been in and out of the hospital and I've been spending almost all of my time at her place, hence the need for a laptop.

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7200 (2.00GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)

OPERATING SYSTEM FREE Upgrade to Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with 1GB of memory
LCD PANEL 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™ (1900x1200)

MEMORY 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz

HARD DRIVE Size: 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)

OPTICAL DRIVE 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability

VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7900 GS

SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Audio

This will be my mobile poker platform, and is easily overkill for poker only, but I anticipate I'll throw a few games on the system, hence the beefed up graphics card. Since I hardly every play games, this is probably a huge leak for me with this system, but I'd rather have it and not use it than want it later and not have it. I plan to install XP in addition to the preinstalled Vista because I hate DRM and such, and want options as well as compatibility for poker software. I'm using a 500$ off coupon (off their inflated price), which sucks becuase it kills the $250 instant savings--making it really only 250$ off of an inflated price. I also hate the lack of a number pad, but I guess I could always get a wireless one. Total price is:

$1,736

Does this make sense, and can I do better? Your advice is appreciated.