Bus, I bought a Sony Vaio FX501 3 months ago from Dabs for £938 inc. vat and delivery. VERY happy with it. has all you want except cdrw (I already had an external one). With your budget you could get the higher spec as stagger suggests or get an external cdrw if you want to share it with pc. The 501 has AMD 1GHz, 256 RAM, DVD, modem, 20 GB hard drive, 14" screen, 8MB video ( NOT SHARED LIKE MOST LAPTOPS), 2x usb ports and all the other usual stuff. Build quality is excellent, and No, I don't work for them
http://www.vaio.sony-europe.com/eng/...ks/frames.html