Comment Toshiba baby.... Toshiba (Score 1) 729
About 6 months ago, I got a second hand Toshiba Satellite 2060 CDS for $750 AUD (about $375 USD) which was the best deal I found in my extensive laptop shopping. It's got an AMD 366Mhz CPU, 64mb RAM, USB... for those specs, I'd be looking at over $1k (which I just didn't have).
It runs WinXP Pro atm quite well (though it ran 2k even better) and even runs a lot of games. Only problem... a 12 inch passive matrix with slight damage (which is why it was cheap)... but it has to be one of the best investments I've ever made... I'm typing this while I sit at the dinner table sippin' on Vanilla Coke (much to my girlfriend's dismay)