Couple months ago I bought a HP Pavilion ZD7000 laptop, 2.66g, 1g ram, 128 meg video ram, wide screen (900 x 1400, I think). I love it. I was a lazy shopper and just bought the PC Magazine best buy in the desktop replacement category customized a bit for my needs. I also run Animation Master, Carrara 3.0 and Maya PLE on it with no probs so far. I really like the wider screen and full size keyboard. The wider screen affords a good chunk of space for tools on the screen without interfering with the view of your projects.