Needs notebook with performance.

Seems your budget is going down =)

However your question is to vague if we were to answer it this post would become a pissing contest.

So check the major manufacturers first (google can help), another thing is that the price depends where you live (europe america....), in holland acers are relatively cheaper than dells than they are in america.

So chack manufacturers websites for what you want, or check ebay.

to help you a bit:
It will be difficult to find a 7200 rpm HDD in a $1000 laptop
4 hour battery life is hard to find in a non centrino laptop

good luck

Life's a joke and so am I

You can get the same amount of battery life in an AMD AthlonXP-M system as a Centrino, and it is cheaper. But you won't get better than M9 graphics (unless you get the Athlon64 MTR ), and you may be able to upgrade to a 7200rpm HDD while just going slightly over ur $1000 budget.

Other than that, you don't have much choice.

RaPTuRe

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?

Have to disagree with you on that:

PROCESSOR Mobile AMD Athlon™ XP-M processor
CHIPSET Via KT333
Screen 15" XGA+ TFT (1024x768)
Memory 2 SO-DIMM DDR SDRAM-PC2100 Sockets (2x256 MB)
VIDEO ATi M10 64MB DDR Dedicated videomemory
STORAGE CD Rewriter/DVD Combo
80 GB 7200rpm 8MB cache 2.5" HDD
Weight/Dimensions: 2.8Kg (including CDROM, harddisk en battery) 328 x 283 x 26 mm
Wireless lan

Price = 1316.60 euro's (ex. vat)

I agree it's way over the $1000 but you would be a bit hard pressed to get something resembling his specs anyway (well... on my side of the atlantic)

The system is configurable and if you "strip" it down to:

256MB
40 GB 4200 HDD
no wireless lan

you get a price of 985.00 euro ex. vat (subtract another 40 if you go with a cd-rom drive)

If all else fails: Read The Manual