buy an acer aspire laptop, that'll be usualyl about 600 or so,then upgrade the battery. then your set. that's what i did, i got lucky and got it on sale for 300 and then battery for like 50 or something like that. i'm set now :-D

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...60174&CatId=17

you can upgrade the ram cheap and battery... taht's a good bit under 1000