Laptop Recommendation

I am the resident Dell laptop fan. Personally, I love my maxed out Latitude D610. The only problem is that this model is a bit more expensive than what you're looking for. Maybe look into the Inspiron line, though in my mind, they aren't quite as easy to use as the Latitude line {based on such things as keyboard size/shape} and just seem slightly more prone to hardware problems. But I've not had any serious problems with any Dell laptops that were not easy to fix. I replaced a motherboard on one a couple weeks ago and it took like half an hour, all because one of the DIMM slots was bad. First time I had problem like that with a Dell laptop, out of the 40+ that I have deployed in the past 18 months. But again, I just really like Dell laptops. I have friends with Toshibas, which they love. I know people with HP laptops which work really well for them.

Also, with my Latitude D610 with the 64 mb Radeon x300 mobile video card, I could play Guild Wars at max settings at 1400x1050 resolution with no problems.

Jam it back in, in the dark.