Oh, sorry for the slow reply. I forgot about this thread for a minute
Anyway, $499 USD doesn't sound too bad atm. It's not a Celeron is it? As far as price, the most I can afford is around $700 USD max. I'm not too picky about screen size right now. I'm going to need a notebook with Windows on it because I plan to do windows programming on the go. It doesn't have to be the greatest 3D machine, but it does need from decent to mediocre 3D hardware acceleration (programmable pipeline is a plus). So what I need basically is a machine that I can run Direct3D9+ samples on or at least be able to run a game such as Doom3 without speed problems.