Everex has succeeded in making a decent laptop for under $400… enter the VA1500V. The unit sports a 15.4-inch Wide XGA display (1400 x 900), 1.5GHz Via C7-M CPU, 512MB’s of DDR2 Memory, 60GB hard drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive, and their own “gOS v2 Rocket” operating system. Grab one at Newegg for $399.99.
Unless you want to learn a new OS stay away, or install a new one.
Save yourself some time and make sure that the hardware used in this thing has windows drivers.
You get what you pay for.