I'd say just get one of the ones listed and an external burner, which can not only burn at up to 8x but suppor both + and - in some models
Once again I'm going to say www.ibuypower.com and www.cyberpowerinc.com have laptops with...
well you could try the sager 47xx 17 in. screen damn good video card, and a bunch of features with reasonably battery life......... or if you want something more powerful the 8790, though it dosen't have very good battery life, even...
On both the ibuy power and cyber power sites there p-m notebooks say they have sxga screens, but the ibuypower one says this is 1400x1050 and cyberpower says 1280x1024 something's wrong here