cool, I'll check the vaio as well...
so far this is what I found at dell's..
So far what I'd like is 15" screen... a DVD/CDR combo drive, 30gigs, and 800+ MHZ... 256 minimum ram...
with dell, on their webpage, I get this:
Inspiron 8100
1 GHZ
2X128Meg of ram
32 meg GeForce2
30 gig drive
Floppy
Millenium with WIN XP upgrade (I got my win2k here , don't need to pay more for it hehe)
10/100 + 56k modem
*x CD-RW/DVD combo
Microsoft works (couldn't care less)
and Dell's 3yr warranty 3 yr Onsite service
Additional battery..
2303$
that's pretty much what I'm looking for
any idea what other types of notebook would gimme something like that cheaper/same quality?
I'll give the vaio a look...