But then my requirements list was quite a bit different than your boss's. At the time I bought it, it was the only retail laptop I could find with a relatively decent 3D card. If I were buying today, I'd probably grit my teeth and mail-order with a Dell Inspiron 8100 (GeForce2, yes!)

Fujitsii has been having some serious financial problems of late; you might base one counter-argument around that. I don't know about flimsy; it doesn't seem any less solid than Dell or Toshiba laptops I've seen.