vampiere

You'll be good with any of them, but I'd get either the 17 or 15 since you'll have at least 3GB of RAM....

Its amazing how efficient they are, or at least how efficient they appear to us ;) . Since they've added Demigod to their plate, I would imagine that they won't start working full time on not-MOM until after its done, especially considering that Demigod is (at least in press coverage) one of the biggest/most important game they're working on. I had already seen previews of Demigod before the announcement that Gas Powered Games and Stardock were going to work together on it a

I like the idea of an observation post/satellite. You could use them, in the case of the observation post, like sentries on your boarder with other races or you could have them patrol your boundries.