The thread subject says it all, well mostly

I'm looking for a laptop with thse four properties (In order of importance):

1. Cheap (Not much more than $1000, meaning < $1111)
2. nVidia graphics card...
3. Widescreen (at least 1280x800, pref. higher)
4. ATI processor, pref. 64 bit

Looking at powernotebooks.com, it seems to good to be true... A laptop fitting my specifications (although pushing my budget) is available...

So my questions are:

1. Has anyone used/had experience with ordering and using laptops from here
2. If #1 is true, then have you gotten linux running successfully
3. If #1 is false, then can you point me to a good place with good laptops, or better a laptop that meets at least 1, 2, and 3?

Thanks all.

I just know with getting used laptops, you gotta be careful about getting dead batteries especially. Sence it's really hard to actually prove how "new" a battery is, alot of times they'll put a crappy nearly dead one in there and sell it to you, tell you its good, but it works only a little bit, or not at all. And batteries can be pretty costly, even on older notebooks, you'll spend upwards of 80 dollars sometimes even for 486 batteries... rediculas I know. The batteries sometimes cost more then the computer it's self on really old notebooks, but your not looking for one that old. Just something you need to watch out for with used ones. Also make sure they gaurenttee that they wont have anything that's going to be annoying or really detremental to the life of the laptop, such as burnt out LCD pixles, cracked cases, messed up hard drives, etc. Used laptops have problems with that sort of thing alot, especially if they're dropped. They could tell you "oh noooo it hasn't ever been dropped...", but when you get it, it'll have a korkey hard drive, or a crack in the case, or whatever... and it's obvious that somebody dropped the thing, but you can't prove that you didn't drop it. Also, as far as laptops go, if your thinking of putting linux on it, I hear IBM laptops are good, although I do not have one myself. I have linux on my HP Pavilion DV4000 with 1.4GHz, 512MB DDR2, 80GIG, 15.2in widescreen, built in 802.11g and a DVD-RW drive, and it works very nicely so far. With alot of laptops you can run into hardware support issues too, considering they have all that propriatory software and lots of hardware venders dont support linux. In the wireless scene, this has become a bit less troublesome with the coming of ndiswrapper though. I had to use that to get wireless working on this thing. The only real trouble I've had so far with compatability is the graphics card on mine... I cant get the driver that is suppost to support my card to work with Xorg, so I have to use the vesa driver, and a hack called 915resolution to get it working right... but even then I dont have 3D accelleartion. Not that big a problem though, I was never a big gamer, some people like that though.

Oh yeah, I got the thing brand new for a little over 800 at circuit city, but that was a couple months ago.

Oh yeah, another little nitpicky bug I have with it running under linux is that the little center blue light at the very top of the keyboard that you can see when the lids either open or closed doesn't work. In windows that was to indicate weather the wireless network card was enabled, however, even with ndiswrapper using my wireless, it doesn't seem to come on. This leads me to think that it was probably software controlled rather then hardware controlled (by the wifi nic it's self I mean). That may come in handy now that I think about it... I could code a plugin for Gaim or an email program and use it as sort of an indicator light, where it'd flash if I got a message and the lid was closed or something... hmmm... I wonder how it's controlled. Maybe it's something simple like numlock (because this laptop doesn't have a light for numlock or scroll lock, only caps lock)...