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If you work for a national, you don't want Vista. 

Make sure you have plenty of USB ports for pedals, mouse, keyboard and other toys.  PS/2 ports will be phased out in the next couple of years and some devices won't run with a USB hub.  I work on my laptop and I use a peripheral keyboard (PS/2 cuz I am short of USBs) and USB mouse because they are easier to use and easier on your body.

As far as guts...a wireless is nice, but not for MT.  You'll want a fast Pentium processor at least a Pentium III, 512 RAM if not more, a SoundBlaster (I don't have one in mine and I wish I did), a headphone jack that will fit your MT headphones and plenty of disk space.

I personally bought mine used in 2006.  It has a floppy drive in it! LOL  It has infrared, wireless, dialup AND Ethernet connections in it.  I only have 2 USB ports and 1 PS/2 port.  I have a game port and I have used it for my ancient VoiceWav pedal.  It has 512 RAM and I upgraded it to XP Pro. The only "toy" I got on it was a DVD player with CD burner.  I can take it to bed, prop it next to me and watch DVDs, which I like because I only have one DVD player and that is not in the bedroom. 

It should also be noted that SOME of the platforms used in this business are NOT supported on a laptop.  Extext is one of them, Dictaphone won't support it if it is installed on a laptop.  If something isn't right, this makes it harder to fix.