Toshiba A25(2.66GHz, pentium 4, 40 gig, 512 ram, dvd/cdrw)

Payed 1400 from best Buy

Pretty nice.. only problem is there is a dead pixel... one dot is red on the screen. But im fine w/that. Its fast, long battery life, little bit heavy.. but oh well. Def. need to upgrade the memory and video card for heavy graphics programs though.