Someone recommend me a good laptop...

[Hitmen]

My girlfriend just bought a laptop (less than two weeks ago) for when she goes away to college. It was a gateway 7118 or something like that. I can get exact information if interested, this is from memory. It was $750 new, athlon 64, 512mb ram, 80gb HD, radeon x500, came with xp media center edition on it.

[111787]

go to like the Dell outlet.  They sell the custom made computers that people return for mucho mucho cheap.

[Tazo]

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[iago]

You should get a toughbook.  They're a little above your specified pricerange (probably start around $3000), but they're so cool!  They're used by police and military and stuff. 

[Meh]

My mum dropped mine and it isnt a ToughBook and it diddnt break. No need to fork out for a toughbook.

[quasi-modo]

My reccomendation is acer. I paid 999 about a year ago for my acer aspire. It has been great. It has 512 pc-2700 ddr, a 80gig hd, and 1.6ghz Amd Turion Proc (1mb l2 cahce). This laptop can't game too much because it is running SiS integrated graphics, but for all general computing it performs as well as my desktop (p4 2.6 w/ ht). It has been a wonderful little laptop. It is fairly light so it's not bad to take to class, though I do kinda wish I had gotten one of those really tiny laptops just because they fit into a backpack so much easier. I guess when I bought it something with a normal 15 inch screen was more appealing to me. But it has been a very stable system and it performs very nicely. Battery life is 3hrs generally, unplugged clock speed is 800mhz, I never notice a performance difference though since I am not doing anything too intensive on this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115328
same laptop now one year later with double the ram, a 20gig more hard drive capacitym and the graphics have evolved a bit for the same price - a rebate putting it right at your price range (but that is for today only).

[JTN Designer]

http://www.edealinfo.com/dell/

I saw Andy (Stealth) post this a while back, should help you out.

[powered by nissan]

Thanks guys I bought a Dell E1505 dual core, 1 gb ram , and 100gb hard drive for $777. Pretty nice.

[rabbit]

Watch out..it might be one of the exploding ones...

[Hero]

I would've went for a MacBook, I have one and it is perfect, and runs windows like a champ. Although it is over your budget, its worth it.