ASUS 6000N/NE Series

Worthful? You can dig the whole world and won't find a notebook of better quality than this one. If you are extremely lucky you may find a couple of other machines that are at best equal to the Asus M6.
Another notebook of great quality is the Sager 3790. But I doubt it will be available in Sweden for a while. You might check Germany though.
Look at the Acer Aspire 2023 or 2026 as well. In the US this is known as the Aspire 2025, 2023 and 2026 are Acer's configurations for Europe and Asia.
Search around on this forum (use the SEARCH option at the top of the page) for more extensive reviews and info on these three.
Can't go wrong with any of them, especially Asus.
Good luck.
P.S. I will be applying to Uppsala for grad school in physics next year. Love Sweden.

the M6N series is great... especially that you're able to get the WSXGA+ version in parts of europe and australia

You are welcome. I am not sure if I will be coming to Sweden because I will apply to Uppsala but depends on them too - have to accept me. If they do I will most certainly come to Sweden.
Oh, btw I am Bulgarian - man, Sweden kicked ass 5:0 on the Euro

My advice is don't even think about OCing the cpu. Laptops, even the best of them, are destined to BAD cooling. The components are so closely packed together that more heat from the cpu will heat up everything in there. heat is enemy #1 to the Li-Ion battery. Furthermore, getting the cpu from 1.5 to 1.6 you will NOT even notice the difference. A noticeable difference you may expect by going from 1.5 to 2.0 Dothan but there is no way you can overclock Dothan that much. Actually, now that you mentioned it - I have never heard of a Dothan clocking utility. I don't think there is one. But even if there is somewhere out there, it is simply not worth the risk.
Most people here, who have an idea about a thing or two, prefer to buy the 1.7 Dothan because it is the best bang for the buck - 1.8 is 150 more but the gain of 0.1GHz is UNNOTICEABLE to human senses, only to picky benchmarks, the 2.0 is simply way too expensive now but even it will not blow your mind compared to the 1.7 Dothan. Buy getting/upgrading 1GB of RAM you will improve the performance of your laptop much more than OCing the cpu by 0.1-0.2 GHZ.
Gamers need a fast GPU and at least 1GB RAM because cpu power is not of great importance, pretty minimal actually, for gaming.
In one word - OC desktops not laptops. Cooling is alredy a problem with laptops you can only make it worse with no noticeable gain in performance.
Hope this helps.
Good luck

hm... the machine in my sig is under $2000 usd...
prices in sweden seem to be much higher than in north america

Believe it or not it is not that much. The 1mb cache is the older centrino Banias, while the 2mb cache is the new improved centrino Dothan (Dothan uses the numbering system 7*5, 715 is the 1.5GHz Dothan).
there is a comparison review, benchmarks included, of a 1.7 Banias (1 mb canche) and a 1.7 Dothan (2mb) system on:
www.tomshardware.com
I cannot give you the exact link to the review but you should be able to find it there in the hardware guide of the site.
Basically, the conclusion is that it is better to have a Dothan but the difference is not as big as many people think. So you are more than fine with a Banias.
I understand that you may not be able to afford a 1.7 cpu but my point on the OCing was that even if you manage to OC the centrino (and I do not believe there is a utility for this) from 1.5 to 1.7 the gain in speed will be close to unnoticeable and will DEFINITELY not be worth the risk you take by OCing the cpu.
Good luck.

Ok,
here is the comparison review between 1.7 Banias and 1.7 Dothan cpus:
http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20040510/index.html

Can yo give me the rpm speeds of the HDs. And are thse both Asus M6N laptops?
If these above are pretty mush the same and 60gig is enough for you, I would go for the Dothan - almost the same clock speed (1.5 vs 1.6 is basically equal) but Dothan is a more efficient evolution of the Banias and with the 2mb cache.
I assume the prices are very close to one another.

P.S. Yeah like Zlatan, a very good and talented player.

Does that mean that the 1.5 Dothan is in an Asus M6 while the 1.6 Banias is not?
P.S. Yeah but remember that fancy backheel vs Italy?

Well, then no contest here, I guess. The Asus with the 1.5 Dothan is an easy choice.
P.S. Correct me if I am wrong, but Bulgaria and Sweden are in the same group again for the WC 2006 qualifiers, aren't we?