I have been given a $900 budget to buy a new laptop and my question is this: what is the best deal someone can find for me online? Here are my very basic stipulations:
I would like a dual-core laptop. I would like it to be equipped with Windows Vista, preferably Vista Home Premium.
I will be using the laptop mostly for honestly intensive web-surfing and downloading, playing online poker, listening to music and dvds. I play games occasionally, but the laptop does not need to be a “gaming” computer.
Please include shipping to Pennsylvania and tax in your calculations (I also live in the Delaware area, so if the laptop were located at say, Best Buy or Circuit City, I could pick it up in Delaware and avoid both of those problems as Delaware has no sales tax).
Finally, I would like this to be some kind of legit deal. Please don’t include some sketchy site you found on Froogle offering $200 laptops.
Have at it folks! Do me proud! Thanks in advance for your answers

So I’m plotting on buying a new laptop this holiday season where the sales are plenty but I’m having distress deciding which laptop to get. I can only spend about $1200 maximum and I can’t choose whether to spring for an alienware laptop or a macbook. I’ll be using the laptop for a lot of gaming and digital art stuff I’ve questioned around and supposedly if you bootcamp a macbook it can run high end games really well but alienware laptops are built to play games >.

Walmart has an acer laptop on sale on black friday for 398 bucks. Next year i’m going to college and I want a laptop. . I really want a macbook, but considering 400 bucks isn’t terrible. . and I’d rather not spend a fortune on a computer i probably won’t use much. . anyway, does anyone know about acer laptops. . are they okay? I don’t want anything fantastic. . . I just want it decent. . Do you reckon i should get it?
IM SO READY FOR BLACK FRIDAY! I Like IT!

I don’t have wireless internet on my laptop. It is a 2000 Del. I want to be able to connect to the internet where ever in my home so I bought a powerline at a garage sale for cheap. Does it make sense to use for this purpose? I have ZER0 experience with computers.

I went to a garage sale and they are selling a laptop for $200. I know it’s too high but what should I offer? (I got their phone number) I only need Word and Excel and internet. I want to watch tv shows online.
Compaq Presario V2000
widescreen
Windows XP Home loaded
Office 2007 loaded
AMD Sempron Processor 3000+
1. 79 GHz
896 MB Ram
It did seem a small slow but I don’t need it for much. I just need to type reports here and there. Mostly for internet.
What do you reckon? No discs and batteries aren’t excellent anymore.