Hello there,

I've been looking around for a decent notebook, mainly for school purposes, but i would like to do some movie-watching and game-playing on it as well. I was hoping you guys here could help me with this. I have about $1500 to spend and there are some things i really want it to have:

- A pentium M processor. I've heard & read some good things about its speed, but the most important thing about for me is the extended battery life. I'd like to be able to use it for 3+ hours without having to recharge the battery.
- A decent screen. I'd like to have some space on my desktop, so a screen with a higher resolution than 1024x768 is a must. Anything greater than (or equal to) 1280x1024 would be great.
- A DVD-player. I want to be able to watch some movies on it.
- A decent amount of RAM. 512 DDR should be enough
- A 5400 rpm harddisk. 30+ GB should do it.
- It should be new. It's one of the 'biggest' things I'll be buying in a long time, so i want it to be all shiny and new-smelling
- There doesn't have to be any software with it, I already have a winXP licence (thanks to my college) and I'll probably install linux on it after some time anway.

I don't know if it's even possible to get a laptop with all this stuff at about $1500, but I'm hoping you guys here might know of something.

Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated,

Franky