They have them at Sams club for $879, it seems like a good price, they are tiny they only weigh 4 pounds and have pretty good specs, including a burner, but I dont know about the brand?

Anyone?

Specs
 
Processor AMD Mobile Athlon XP-M 1600+ Processor with PowerNow!™ technology and QuantiSpeed™ Architecture
Display 12.1" XGA TFT
Memory 256 MB DDR
Hard Drive 30GB, 9.5mm thin
Optical Combo DVD+CD-RW
Communications Built-in 802.11b Wireless LAN, 56k Modem and 10/100 LAN.
Battery 3-Hour Lithium-Ion
Weight 4.3 lbs
Dimensions 10.6" x 9.6" x 1.2"
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional


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edited to fix pic, hopefully.

This company used to be known as Sotec.  Go to www.cnet.com or www.epinions.com and check them out.

Personally, I was looking at an Averatech laptop at a local store recently and it seemed like a good deal at about $575.  However, I found the same exact model under the old Sotec name had a problem with bad CPU fans and poor customer service.

Seriously, I work for a large county network department and there are only two laptops I recommend: Dell and Apple.