Advive is always good to get
What did you want to use it for? If you wanted to do pretty much anything other than surf the internet I would advise trying to find one with a video card not video card shared with ram, you can get ones with 256 geforce cards built in makes it go soo much better, we got an NEC laptop have since found they are hunks of junk so would stay away from them, would also go with at least 2gb ram and as large a hdd as you can afford unless you want to go with a portable hdd which are cheap on trademe.. I think Dell do some good laptops online?