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I'd look at something with an AMD64 processor and 3 or 4 GB of RAM, with at least two internal 150GB drives for that price. HP do a good range - 'Pavilion'. I paid about £600 for mine at that spec about 18 months ago.
Given your requirements, I'd suggest that you get one that has its own graphics card memory, and doesn't 'share' system RAM. Been a while since I checked current specs.
The Samsung laptop I bought earlier this year has so far been reliable.
The Toshiba laptop I bought last year was not reliable, it started developing some problems, shutting down at random. This may have something to do with having an early version of Vista, but I wasn't that pleased with it.
My GF still has a ongoing problem with her Toshiba shutting down. We have sent it back 4 times and it is still not fixed. Customer support is terrible!!!!