Quote Originally Posted by Kes View Post
Well, I'm not going to be much help since you said both Windows XP and around $1000, and I'm an Apple whore, but you may want to specify what you mean by a "fairly large" hard drive. That being said, from what I understand if you can find a good computer that fits everything else, external hard drives are fairly inexpensive, so you may want to look into that.

I'm almost certain that you'd have a hard time finding a laptop that <i>doesn't</i> have wireless and at least DVD playing capabilities.
A lot of the programs I run don't work on Apple computers, they're Windows-only.

As for hard drive space, what is good nowadays? This old cinderblock I'm using only has 2 40GB hard drives. I'm assuming that's rather poor to today's standards.

Also, I'd like to know what video cards, processors, drivers, etc. I should get.