Before the IBM I had a Dell Inspiron 8600 with 1920x1280 resolution. The screen was wonderful, but the rest was total crap. Stay away from Dell!
DOH! I have an 8600 with the UWXGA (1920x1280) screen and you are right the screen is amazing. But I can't agree with the other statement. I love it. It's a 1.7 Pentium-M with GeForceFX5650 128 meg card... I've never had a problem with IT, or the Inspiron 8000 I had prior to it. Personally, I'd never get anything BUT Dell unless I wanted to drop cash on an alienware or similar high-end gaming lappy.
But to each their own I suppose.