Camera forum for the win

I did it, I ordered a laptop. I decided I did not what to spend $1250 on a laptop (the Toshiba I linked) and that $1K was my MAX. I had a nice (less expensive) Toshiba picked out on Newegg for $1K when adamjohari sent me this link in a PM

http://www.dealsea.com/

I specking out a nice HP Pavilion with the same or better specs for $900 Free shipping too!

Here are the basics specs:
Monitor: 17" 1600x900 WS
CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.40GHz 3MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800MHz
HD: 320GB 5400rpm
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4530 with 512 DDR2 800MHz
Networking: 10/100Mbps and Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N
OS: Vista Home Premium 64 bit

I decided to go 64bit Vista to try it out despte not being compatible with Nikon software. Hopefully Nikon fixes that soon or at least makes things compatible with Windows 7. For now this computer is mainly for my wife.

Thanks again to all of you for the input. I checked out all your suggestions and It helped me think things through.

Cheers,
Andre