Considering buying a vostro 1500 but...

Basically, I'm looking for a cheap laptop that I can still game on (I'm essentially just buying this laptop for Starcraft 2)
I'm currently using a Toshiba M40 with a Geforce 6600, but I'm getting a lot of overheating and other weird crap.


Right now my cart has it set up with
2ghz CPU
2 gigs ram
120 gig hard drive
8600GT (of course)
1400 res screen
and other stuff that's inconsequential)


Anyways
I was wondering if it's worth waiting for Geforce 9 next year
From what I've heard, it seems like more than an 'incremental' upgrade, and I do use my laptops to game a lot.

Suggestions?
I'm this [..] close to ordering the vostro, but reading stuff about geforce 9 made me take pause.

 

There are always gonna come better things. If your gonne think about it in that way your never going to get a computer, cause 2 years from now geforce 10 is probably going to be realesed, so you might want to wait for that.

I say just buy it, you get plenty of power for upcomming games. Just look at the bright side of things. Geforce five supports HD and DirectX 10.

 

well, I know there's always new stuff around the corner

But the thing is, the geforce 9 looks like a 'significant' upgrade to the geforce 10

I mean, geforce 7-8
geforce 6-7
etc
the difference was pretty minute, and really the upgrades were just incremental

now they're saying that geforce 9 is twice as powerful as 8 in real world applications.

It's just that a 2x upgrade in less than 12 months seems pretty big.
It's not like santa rosa where people see like a 10% improvement or something like that.

I'm just having trouble clicking checkout right now

 

The only way not to lose money is to buy outdated technology that is about a year behind the times. The best bang for the buck way is to buy the $700 laptops that are out today, like the Vostro 1400 or 1500. The least economically efficient way is to buy the XPS or Sony SZ premium models. It sort of depends what you're after. Are you the type of guy who buys used cars, Honda Accords, or Ferraris?

 

I truly doubt that the next generation of geforce go will be twice as powerful. And even if it were it would be twice as expensive. As it stands now, the Vostro/Inspirons represent a pretty good value for one of the fastest GPU's in a 15" laptop.

 

well, I prefer to buy whatever gives the best price/performance ratio and won't be completely out of date for 2 years or so
My current 2 year old rig still runs anything I throw at it, albeit at low-medium settings
I know the 8600 will meet my needs for now, no question about that.
but if geforce 9 is as large a step up as it's been hyped as, then I'm worried I'll be stuck at low-medium settings within a year of my purchase