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i just have the demo of DBpro right now, but i plan on buying the package deal that includes the modler, particle sytem, DBpro, and all those goodies, and im planning on buying a computer.. i want to get a system that would be perfect for game-making.. preferably a laptop or something portable. Are there any system conflicts or graphic cards that DB wont work on? and what processor is optimal?
i plan on going to dell.com or sonyonline or whatever, and ordering a custom-made one, specifically to what is perfect for DBpro.

Look for as faster procssor as possible. AMD have out a 2400 mobile processor out and are planning on launching a 2800 soon. Make Sure it uses a mobile porcessor as some Pentium4 laptops use the desktop processor which draws more power and can overheat very easily. If you are prepaired to wait a little bit then AMD are prepairing a 64bit mobile processor (the AMD Athlon-64). Look for either a NVIDIA Quadro 2 Mobile Grapics Card or a NVIDIA Geforce 4 Ti4200 Mobile. DO NOT GET a NVIDIA Geforce 2 or Geforce4MX as these are old and\or stripped down budget cards. The Quadro 2 is old but still powerful and is designed for profesional animation and games development. Alternativly you could try and get the brand new mobile GerforceFX but I havn't seen any. You could go for an ATI grpahics card as the mobile 9000 series Radeons are quite powerful but personaly I don't rate em. You should look to load the laptop up with as much RAM and as larger Hard Disk as possible and make sure it is using DDR RAM (PC2100 or highet) not SDRAM (PC100 or PC133). Make sure the Hard Disk is at least 5400rpm, preferably 7200 (I have never seen one of these in a laptop )

If you do buy from a place like dell and are upgrading from the default specifitation make sure they are not ripping you off. This is especially true with dell and ram. 256mb can cost over £100 but if you buy it seperatly and install yourself it will be less than £40

thanks for the recomendations and sys-specs guys, ill watch out for them trying to gyp me..

Maybe I'm just weird, but I'd think the target machine specs would be more important to a DB/DBPro programmer...having a machine perfectly optimized for DB/DBPro makes it really hard to deal with bug reports from users with machines that don't handle DB/DBP's quirks well.

I'd have opted for a middle-of-the-road system that represents the average user machine if I were looking for a development machine. Then again, you can always get beta testers, so that's probably a moot issue.

-Misanthrope