A fast and reliable laptop is a major component to success w/ almost any business nowadays.   I am a big fan of Lenovo laptops.  I own the R61; it's got a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 3GB of RAM, and a pretty good graphics card.  The fast processor let's me run several applications at once without any lag.  I can even work on my computer while video renders in the background.  Today, I needed to buy a new computer for our colleague.  He has been working off an old computer and it's definitely hammering his productivity.  I didn't buy a Lenovo!  I still love their computers, but they, like so many other companies charge an arm-and-a-leg for laptops w/ a Quad Core processor.  I bought this Asus (a pretty good brand if you ask me) for $1,100 on Amazon; pretty much the same laptop costs just over $2,500 at BestBuy.  In fact, the specs for the Asus through Amazon are better.  The hard-drive is 7200rpm's.