ok ive gone thru basicaly every laptop in the market and i gotta say bang for the buck hp dv 8000 it has 17 screen xbrite dvd burner with light scribe 1 gig memory 2 100 gig hd and a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 i can say plays any game out there.battery life when on internet 4 hours on movie 3hours.cpu Processor Intel Core Duo processor up to T2600(2.16 GHz) forgot to mention weighs light a newborn baby.