Title sums it up quite nicely but i'll just add:

Price range: not something i caring about right now, so long as it suffices my needs

I'm currently a junior at GMU, studying applied computer science - computer game design (in short i'm studying to be a game programmer) and i'm looking for a replacement laptop to suite my needs. Primarily I want it to be a good programming machine, one that i can easily program on, and it suites all those needs. Secondarily, but equally as important, It has to be a good gaming machine too, and it has to be decently quiet while gaming. The one main thing i hated about my laptop is that when i gamed on it, the fan sounded like a freaking vacuum that got turned on, and was just loud and ....not discreet...

I've looked around and look at some and narrowed it down to some, but i wanna know the MMO-C's opinion, and what yall have to say

Thanks