http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...amp;CatId=1897
This is the exact laptop I have (got mine for $900 a couple months ago though). Only $640, 160 gig HD, 1 gig of ram expandable to 2. AMD Turion64 1.6 gig dual core processor, owns any centrino in my opinion. Has a built in wireless card obv. (works pretty good and even picks up my neighbors' wireless), battery life im not so sure what constitutes good batt. life but it pushes near 3 hours on highest brightness setting (don't use it unplugged too much myself only at wifi places once in awhile). It does burn dvds aswell.
Overall, very fast and processor isn't sluggish or anything when opening programs. Plus doesn't take a vacation day to start up like toshiba's (atleast the one I owned and the new one my friend bought).