I just bought the woman a 2.2ghz turion ultra puma based HP dv4z. It's pretty damn nice. Vista screams on it and it's even powerful enough to play her favorite games: Simcity Societies, Sims 2, Spore, Tetris and other games with ease. It has the Radeon HD3200 / 780G shizzle going on it's quite capable for what she got. 2GB of ram included. She is totally blown away by its performance. Granted, she's coming from a Barton 3000+ desktop, but I in no way feel that we made the wrong choice and should have gone with an intel based machine. She wanted something that could game. At $649, great deal, IMHO.