Okay so I just got this Laptop: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214040

and I find out that even though it is a lot better than my old desktop PC in terms of hardware in my old system:

Windows XP Media Center Edition SP3
AMD 3700+ 2.2 Ghz
Asus A8N Sli Premium
XFX 7800 GT 400 MHz
2 GB Corsair XMS RAM
250 GB 7200rpm Seagate Drive
600 Watt Seasonic Power Supply

It turns out that it is slow as hell. I don't know if it is the WIFI connection or the 5400rpm hard drive? It's just slow and somewhat unresponsive. I really wish I would have gotten a 7200rpm hard drive laptop the only problem is they are hard to find and usually when I find them it turns out that they were wrongfully advertised as 7200rpm. So I got one that is the typical 5400rpm hoping it wouldn't make a difference. Well it does and I'm pissed!

Another thing I was trying to do is bridge my internet connection from my desktop PC to my laptop using Ethernet. My router is currently using all the wired ports and I don't have an Ethernet cable long enough to reach it. I want to do this to see if the WIFI is what is slowing me down. My Desktop PC has two Ethernet ports and I plugged the second Ethernet port (first one being used for internet of course) into my laptop hoping to get internet connection through my desktop PC. I fiddled around with the network connection settings on both my desktop PC and laptop but I couldn't get it to work. So I'm looking around at laptops and I see really cheap ones that have 7200rpm:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157532

I'm thinking, damn, I should have done more research. I saw high end gaming laptops over $1000 that have 5400rpm hard drives. Are there really low end laptops running at 7200rpm or is this wrong information?