Thanks for the feedback Brian. It's a shame a VAIO sounds like it's not right for me, as they look so nice and come with Premiere installed. On paper I thought it looked powerful enough but seems like people are saying otherwise.

So if 17" widescreen is fiddly does that mean I'm gonna have to get a 19" screen?! Or is it just that widescreen is not so good as regular shape ones for editing?

I'm thinking of getting a desktop now (see my recent post in this forum) as I don't want to risk getting a laptop if it's not gonna be fast enough.

Cheers.