I recently bought a nice little HP laptop and got a really good deal on it too. It has a dual core pentium, 1gb memory, 120 gb hard drive, and everything else I need. However, it did come with Vista, which meant I needed to get php5 working with iis7 and mysql if i wanted to do an development work on it. Luckily I found this great how to http://blondr.blogspot.com/2006/11/set-up-iis-7-w-mysql-and-php-5.html