prince961

I've spend now couple of weeks trying to decide which SONY VAIO i should buy. It seems like there is no perfect fit for me. Iam an engineering student going into my third year. So far I know that I want a 14"-15.4" screen. I was looking at the SONY VAIO FJ model: Pentium M (1.83GHZ, 100GB Hard drive, 1GB memory), nice looking laptop but my issue with it is the fact that it is a pentium M and has no graphics card. My question: Do I really need a CORE DUO processor and a graphics card. I mean I will be playing games such as Age of Empires 3, the new Command of Conquer games and of course alot of CS. Iam worried that the FJ model wont be able to handle these games. Another model I looked was the FE but only configured it to about $1700 on sony's website, has the following: CORE DUO (1.83GHz, 80GB Hard Drive, 1GB memory, Nvidia 7600). These specs are good but this is a little pricey. This computer is no good in the store. Should I buy the FJ model??

If anybody with these models or experience with these models could help I would appreciate it greatly.

Thank YOu