the laptop in my sig was only $400 USD without tax.
Its not much of a gaming laptop, but as long as i can watch/play videos/music, type up an assignment, browsing the internet all at the same time. Do some video conversions here and there for my psp, do some music conversions and syncing for my Zune. It does what i need. I dont play games on my laptop, thats what my desktop is for.