You'd be surprised. Emily recently got one from PC world. She only uses it as you describe - surfing the net, msn, itunes, the odd dvd maybe. We spent £329 I think it was, a few weeks back so the prices have gone down since. For the money its a pretty good machine and does everything she requires. The was a slightly better deal in Dixions (slightly lower spec processor but double the memory) however they were sold out at the time (and girls being girls wanted it there and then!). True, had I gone to my usual places for getting pc related bits - Novatech, ebuyer etc I probably could have got something even better but really, for the price you can't complain! The price of laptops have dropped dramatically over the past year or two so in that respect what ever you get will be a bit of a bargain. Andy (still looking for an F7P ben!)