woot.com's selling a great laptop with a 17" widescreen for 800$. it's a refurb, but it's got 500 gigs of hd space (5400rpm, though), 4 gigs of memory, and a t5800 cpu. wireless n, esata...it's a pretty nice machine. no warranty, just a 30-day thing.
it's 64-bit vista, though, so compatibility might be an issue.
edit: and it's got a bluray player/dvd burner.