New computer???

Alright, so a few questions --

1 - What is the budget.

2 - Do you care what size the laptop is? 11"? 13? 14? 17?

3 - Do you care what the resolution on the screen is? 1366x768 (720p) OK? Or do you want something closer to 1920x1080 (1080p)

4 - How long do you want this to last? Is FIFA 12 going to be the most stressful game you want to play? The longer you want this to last, and the more you want to play on this, the more $$ it'll take.

5 - What about battery life? Does this need to last for 8 hours, or would 2-3 hours be fine?

6 - If you're not overly concerned about portability, a desktop would definitely handle the specific aspect of video & audio recording a bit better than a laptop. This is especially true if you're planning on doing good quality recordings, versus "everything at low graphics, low resolution" and lower fidelity audio.

I'm not sure about buying in the UK, but for North America, something like this would probably work. 17.3", so not overly portable.. 4GB RAM, dedicated graphics card, i5 processor, 1600x900 display.

The HDD isn't the fastest, but it shouldn't be the worst. I've got 5400RPM drives in my laptop, and they work fine for everything. Haven't had to do any FRAPS stuff lately, but I doubt you'll have issues.

Here are some similar laptops, usually in the 15.6" range.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246214

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215197

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215084

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215196

Unfortunately, these all have lower resolution screens than the 17" one... For some reason, people have become accustomed to these 720p screens, instead of opting for the better screens.

EDIT -- So here's the requirements for FIFA '12 via this site

Minimum system requirements

* OS: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
* CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo at 1.8 GHz / Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+
* RAM: 1 GB XP, 2 GB Vista/7
* HDD: 6.5 GB free disk space
* Graphics: 256 MB Graphics Memory
* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible
* DirectX: Version 9.0c

Recommended system requirements

* OS: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
* CPU: Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz / Athlon II X2 245e
* RAM: 3 GB XP, 4 GB Vista/7
* HDD: 6.5 GB free disk space
* Graphics: 512 MB Graphics Memory (GeForce GTS 240 or Radeon HD 3870
* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible
* DirectX: Version 9.0c

With any of the suggested laptops, you're beating the recommended system requirements. Unfortunately Fraps will likely be encoding on the fly, so I can't say for sure how well it'll perform in that case. If possible, set it for lossless capture and throw the media out to an external device / secondary HDD. That way, you can encode that after your games, rather than encode while playing. It's possible that the i5 that is in many of the recommended systems will handle encoding + playing the game at the same time just fine, but it's an option to consider if you are having issues with framerate.