Don’t tell the hordes swarming into the Apple Store every weekend, but the days of needing to spend over $1,000 to get a quality laptop passed by while most of them were still in high school. Even before netbooks came along sending manufacturers into a frenzy while chewing their own margins down to pennies just to compete, prices on Windows laptops were in a freefall, leaving today’s prices at rock bottom. With Windows 7 now standard, you won’t have to deal with Microsoft’s last dud of an operating system this year either. Just about any notebook under $500 will serve your most basic needs, but some inevitably do it a whole lot better than others. Here are some of our favorites.

Dell VV13, $449.00 and up.

Asus Eee PC Seashell 1201N-PU17, $483.41

Lenovo X100e, $499.00 and up.

HP Pavilion dm1z Series, $449.99 and up.

Sony Vaio W Series, $449.99

MSI X Slim X340-021US, $499.99

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Source: http://shopping.yahoo.com

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