[McGraw]

Hello.

My Dad is looking for a laptop which I suppose would be classed as a desktop replacement as it is purely for use in different rooms of the house.

He is willing to pay up to £2k for one but we are struggling to find one that fits the bill.

It is for general web browsing, word processing and e-mail in the main but as a secondary function it needs to be a hi-def DVD player with a big enough and good enough screen to watch from the end of the bed. If it had good internal speakers as well, that would be great.

Gaming is of secondary consideration, so where performance is important, as long as it will run Vista with Aero well and play reasonably recent games then that is fine. We looked at Alienware but SLI is a waste of time and money.

So, is there a laptop with the following features?

20" 1920x1080 screen.
HDMI out (to use the Blu-ray or HD-DVD on the main TV) and in (or something like it to archive SKY +)

The Vaio looks good but only has a 17" screen. The Dell XPS looks good (especially with the detachable wireless keyboard) but the screen res is only 1440x?.

Is there anything that does it all?

Other than that, if nothing fits the bill, what is the best laptop between £1000 and £1500? It must have a 17" screen (ideally wide) and have a decent amount of ram and a fast hard drive (size isn't that important). Build quality and looks are also very important.

Thanks a lot.