[Laptop has died! What type of laptop should I get now?]

I would go with a laptop that has the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M graphics card.

If you can live with a 16" screen with 1366x768 resolution, the Asus G60VX-RBBX05 is $900.00 at Best Buy.

The ASUS G Series G72Gx-X1 has a 17" screen with 1920x1080 resolution, and is $1,300.00 at Newegg.

[Invisable Avatars Spying]

I have heard that it is possible for someone to follow you around Sl, as you travel from sim to sim. Also, that is possible for them to be not only invisable,but to not show on the mini-map or radar. Is this true? And is it something anyone can do, or only special powers granted to Linden avis?I know there is no real privacy in SL, and that even your chat and IMs are accesible to the Lindens, except those encrypted by the Emerald viewer, but  can anyone spy on somebody this way? The question arises from a conversation I had with someone who was being followed around and harrassed, and did not know what to do about it.