no tax and it comes with windows 7:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115674

 

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/835857/Toshiba-Satellite-L505D-LS5007-156-Widescreen/

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplatemapper.jsp?id=pcat17080&type=page&qp=crootcategoryid%23%23-1%23%23-1~~q70726f63657373696e6774696d653a3e313930302d30312d3031~~cabcat0500000%23%230%23%2311a~~cabcat0502000%23%230%23%23o~~nf518||4c657373207468616e2024363030&list=y&nrp=15&sc=abComputerSP&sp=%2Bcurrentprice+skuid&usc=abcat0500000

 

:omg: dafish is that a metroid avatar? i know it is!

 

You would be correct in assuming that!:up:

 

depends what you want. i have a very good desktop from dell and i just wanted something to take to school.

i got a hp/compaq CQ60 laptop for 299. its windows 7 64 bit and 15.6 screen. its not super fast, but i dont really keep a lot of files on it and really only use it for browsing and making small documents. i would highly recommend it, esp if you are just wanting a laptop as a second PC. its ideal imo, and priced at the same as the little minis, most of them not having windows 7 and having the 1.66 atom chip

if you want your laptop to be your primary PC and be powerful, 400 is not going to get you a whole lot from what i have seen

 

I had to dish out $529 to get what I wanted. I would find a good price but it would have an Intel integrated graphics card or lacking enough memory. I finally bit the bullet and find this one at Office Depot on sale. I don't regret spending the extra cash to have desktop performance in my backpack. I was awesome to be able to play Borderlands on my lappy even though I had to run it on low detail.

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/retail-product.jsp?poid=460984

On sale here:

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if 400 is truly you limit, get a dell at their website

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dndozm1&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19

nice basic Laptop if you are not into heavy gaming, filesharing etc

but if you can spend the extra 100, get the extras or wait for a sale at best buy, thats what i did and it fits my needs

 

I'm guessing you went for more sheep picture storage.