I normally compare these things at hardwareschotte.de. Cyberport tends to be on the rather expensive side from a few comparisons I made.

It all went into a different direction. i7-2670QM is still the CPU I'm heading for but I found my way to a reseller for custom notebooks called Schenker (selling Clevo barebones, based in Leipzig Germany)

So my pick is the XMG A501-8AN with normal HDD, exluding optical drive but with an Crucial M4 128GB SSD for a custom price of 899€

two reviews in german:
http://www.computer-masters.de/schenker-xmg-a501.php
http://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Schenker-XMG-A501-Notebook -Clevo-W150HRM.53197.0.html

The graphics is very oversized for just making music but comes in handy for CAD software in my case, plus you can switch on/off external graphics with a button. The service is very nice and the device may be opened without guarantee loss which both is a big bonus point for me, I'm sick of sending stuff around for weeks. More expensive than I thought but that's it, time to upgrade to an SSD is perfect with recent price drops.

edit: notebook arrived. test results:
i5-430M / 7200 HDD / 4GB: 3x Diva (Divine) in normal project
i7-2670QM / SSD / 8GB (but 32bit Live): 7x Diva (Divine) in normal project
(9x INIT Alpha Divine in an empty project, it starts lagging with the 10th)
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Diva kicks my cpu's butt !!!! i7 920 2.66 ghz . What Latency buffer settings are people using ?? 64 , 128 , 256 , 512 ??

Please excuse my ignorance but does DIVA require Kontakt to run? It still says that on the belamedia web site. If not would Diva run In Logic Pro 9?

I had to look that up. The belamedia website you're referring to has a product which is called Diva Revamp, which is a sample library and does require Kontakt.
The Diva to which people refer to in this threat is a syntheziser made by U-he: http://www.u-he.com/cms/diva
The latter doesn't require Kontakt, works perfectly well in Logic but does require a fast PC

EDIT: to avoid any confusion, they're completely different things and not related at all.

Thanks BDeep, I can't tell from the web site if the software can emulate female singers, the sample recordings seem to have the sound of singers sometimes but also a lot of synth leads, which is it? If it is a singer can she be programmed to sing Lyrics? Can the vibrato be user controlled?

You're welcome.
U-he Diva, for all synth sounds, can't do vocals....
Belamedia Diva, I don't know anything about this, but what I understood from reading their site, it's female vocals.