OK here's what I came home with. Had to shop at Best Buy as the wife "who must be obeyed" wanted to feel the keyboard, you know how the touch on the keys was. How can you argue with that. Anyway I got a HP Pavilion dv7, Intel i7 2.53GHZ Turbo to 2.8GHZ, 17.3" screen, 640 GB HD, 6GB RAM DDR3, ATI Radeon GPU.
Been running Primegrid all night to Stress tests the CPU's. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. And later (after 1PM) I'll take a look at setting the GPU to work. Thanks everyone for your input.