The bare minimum processor you should be looking at is a coreduo. It's pretty pointless to get anything lower.
That being said I'm also looking for one and most PC mags I've seen are rating rating the Toshiba Satellite A200 and Asus F5R very highly under 1.5K. I'm deciding between these two. More likely to go with F5R as it has Vista Home Premium instead of Home basic or XP and a slightly bigger HDD (160gb). And Asus has had a good run with me, most of my PC's and current laptop are predominantly asus parts.
I don't know why you want XP particularly if your hardware is capable of running it, unless you're running some obscure software from the windows 2000 era. But, most manufacturers offer a rollback disk to xp if required.
None of these are what I'd call light at around 2.5kgs, but not ridiculously heavy either. And forget playing games either.
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Originally Posted by martino
How many times does one have to say that a graphics card has very little to do with video decoding? *sighs*
Get a one with a faster CPU in that case, unless you play graphics intensive games.
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That's not exactly true. It is in this case but there are exceptions to this rule