Well, got me a Toshiba Satellite X200, and its amazing... of course it will take a bit of time to get everything up and running... Currently partitioning the hard drive so I have  a dual boot system - XP for my rendering software, Poser, Mojoworld, and Bryce and Vista Ultimate as thats what came with the laptop.  I have Intel Core2 Duo Processor T7100 1.8GHz, 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8700, video memory 512MB, 250 GB of hard drive... and I'm so excited.  I just bought the upgrade from Poser 5 to 7 and can't wait to play  :) I'm moving to this from my old faithful Pentium 4 so think I may see a bit of a change in processing  :)  doing a lil happy dance

Thanks so much for everyone's comments and all that you've shared..  I'm with nerd, I can't believe how many versions of Vista there is out there, and I also heard that Microsoft was going to stop selling XP in March 2008.  Not sure if thats just a rumour but I sure think thats a mistake until all of the graphic softwares run on Vista..

Off to play set up....  Have a fab day everyone....