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Asus P50IJ-X2. I got one and added a micro BT adapter and a 7200RPM hard drive, in all it was well under $600. It comes with Win7 somethingorother...I swapped out the hard drive before ever powering it on so I haven't used it.

It's VERY easy to work on the hardware on this laptop BTW. Just 5 screws and everything is accessible, it's as easy as a desktop PC.
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@ all the people making jokes about anger mgmt, toughbooks etc.... have you ever used windows vista?
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There are a ton of laptops under $1000 - any core 2 duo/4gb ram/320gb HDD laptop should come in for $600 +/- $100, and they all come out of the same factories in china anyway, so pick whichever brand you like.

I use a laptop, and a netbook, and of course the n900. I like options. My netbook (acer aspire one) triple boots meego, win7 ultimate, and MacOS. Yeah... I need too many OSes.
 
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asus ul80vt

light

12hrs battery life confirmed

dvd

hdmi out

culv 1.3 oc to 1.7

4gb ram

320gb hdd 7200rpm

nvidia 210gt m

w7

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I'm eying a Toshiba R700 right now. It has 13.3" screen and it weighs only 1,3 kg, but it still has Core i3, i5 or i5 CPU instead of a low power and performance CPU. Don't know about the Linux support yet, and there is a chance that it's quite noisy, but it's just come to the market, so these things are soon to be found out.
 

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Get an Apple laptop, they are genuinely better than the windows ones. As apple control the hardware and software completely I'm convinced they optimise them really well. I got a macbook 2 years ago and haven't looked back... I have windows (dell) work laptops and had HP ones in the past and although obviously cheaper they were also a lot crapper.

Failing that get a Sony.

If you're a geek and spend a lot of time on it, it's worth the extra for the good brand and quality.

If you just wanna go for cheapest then get a Dell - lots of people bash them but they're good for what they are.
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i got the Alienware m11x ! it is the best laptop i've ever owned! they come in core 2 duo (799) core i5/i7 (949) despite the 11" screen this is one beast machine! i get 7-8 hours on low brightness and 2 hours of gaming on battery! the build quality is very solid too! and it comes with nvidia gt 335M! runs HD very smooth!
 

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I second leviathan, asus ul80vt is your best bet

I was going to suggest the Acer Aspire AS1551-5448
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or the Asus ul20

But I don't think they could handle the 1080P playback you want
 

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Asus UL80 or UL30 imho.
 
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if you have a laptop that can run vista then no use buying a new lappy, just upgrade to windows 7.
 
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