Never hurts to get some advice. Im in Canada and my budget is $1000. My requirements are a Core 2 Duo of some sort, a 9 cell battery, 80GB HDD, and a video card that will run CSS (not sure if intel GMA 950 will or not, anyone know?). This is the laptop I was looking at: http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/f...dhs1&l=en&s=dhs The $859 one, putting a 9 cell in, and 2gb ram. Would that prove sufficient? Needs will mostly be music, surfing, note taking, occasional gaming.