Requesting the expertise of those familiar with laptops :)

[Moorea]

2nd machine is better, but neither will handle 3 wows. Laptops have small heatsinks, 3 wows on either of those duel cores will overheat the machine.

this totally wrong; I 5 box on a similar laptop and it works fine

what you do want though is 1920x1200 instead of 1366 x 768 - the more pixels the more you can actually see of alt windows