how about a gateway 7510gx. It's on sale this week at best buy for $1249 with no rebates, comes with a 3700+ (2.4ghz 1mb cache) processor, 1gb of ram, ati 128mb x600 video, 100gb (4200rpm) hd, and firewire. Granted it's not a turion and battery life would run 2-2.5 hours, but it's still a super...