A few things that might be worth noting... The Acer I linked before comes with WinXP Pro which is typically more expensive (~ $200 to upgrade from Home) than the Home version provided with other notebooks which I would expect to pay less for because of this. If XP Home may be all you need / want then ignore this. DDR2 is still too new even though it's been around awhile. While it's faster and has more bandwith that DDR, I have yet to see a PC who's BUS can feed the RAM chips significantly beyond the capacity / speed of regular DDR. It's somewhat pointless to use DDR2 in any notebook that bottlenecks like this. However, it's a great marketing gimmick, eh. :) The more we start seeing notebooks with Front Side Bus (FSB) speeds greater than 800Mhz (big bottleneck) which also use DDR2 it start actually becoming possible to be beneficial.