I've been running Poser on various laptops for a couple of years now, but the latest is a definate winner. It's what the manufacturers call a "desktop replacement". It's an Acer Aspire 1714SMI. It has a 17" screen, can go to a resolution of 1280x1024, has a 3.4ghz processor, 120gb hard drive and 1gb RAM. It uses desktop parts, not laptop ones. That means I don't have to pay for expensive laptop bits when I want to upgrade. Also, the video card is replacable(it comes with a nVidia GeForce FX Go5700, which has 128mb dedicated RAM. I could replace that with any PCI video card, though it's been fine for me so far). Poser flies along (I use Poser5 and Poser6 without problems and my runtime is about 20gb of stuff). Cost wise - it cost me 1200 when it first came out. Given that that was in September last year (and that computers cost less in the US than they do over here) I expect what you can get now would easily come within your price bracket. If I were you I'd definately consider a "desktop replacement" when you shop - plenty of screen area, uses standard parts and it's portable (OK, a bit heavy, and the battery life isn't so good because of that whacking great screen). But overall, I'm thrilled with it and the main thing I use it for (other than picking up my email) is Poser.