Stepped my budget up a bit, now I have around $400-ish taxed in. I've been looking at the FS/BB sites and found a couple of laptops that seem to fit my needs (decided to screw the netbook for something I can actually use for general purpose).
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/...0d45a5bbbben02
I personally like this one, but I'm not sure how well the AMD V140 processor performs, since I like to multi-tab my browsing.
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/produ...0d9b56150fen02
This one is the same price as above after the discount, seems solid with the dual-core and is more compact, but I'm a bit wary of the integrated graphics since I still want to be able to run CS 1.6.
Any opinions are appreciated thanks! I'm a bit stoked to be getting a laptop, and I want to make it count.