I've bought myself a laptop; nothing fancy, in fact just about the cheapest one I've ever seen. It's an Acer 3694 which is on sale at Comet for £299. But it's got a perfectly usable spec - 1.86 GHz celery processor, 80 GB hard drive, and all the expected features.
Now I don't actually need a laptop, it's just a toy I couldn't resist, and there's certainly some attraction in sitting comfortably on the settee doing stuff. It came with Vista Home Basic, which runs so slowly it's like wading through treacle. I'll probably end up wiping the disk and using the whole machine for Linux, but in the first instance the disk is conveniently partitioned into two equal parts so I've used what would have been the Windows D drive for Linux.
I have to say that for the amount of money I spent I'm pretty pleased with this machine. 8)