I bought my daughter a great lappy. It is a Toshiba Satellite M65-S9092...17" widescreen, 2.0 Pentium M, 1 GB RAM, 100 BG hard drive, DVD burner, ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 SE, Windows XP Media Center Edition.
I got it through J&R (jr.com). Their current price is $1249.99, and they ship to Canada.