I've got no more than £250 to spend, battery life is important and I'd like it to be able to play watchable DVD's via an external drive (which i have).
Operating system isn't so important, it appears that Windows 7 is usually a "starter" version and you have to spend money to upgrade it to get the full features of Windows 7 so based on that i think I'd be happy with XP unless you think thats a bad thing?
Any suggestions?

