Lyra Echelon

......bad lighting? I'm going to a concert soon, and obviously it will be dark with crazy lights. So I need a camera that can handle these conditions and have a good zoom.

I remember a book I picked up once from the library when I was about 13 or 14. It was all short stories and most of the stories had sex in them (it corrupted my mind lol) but the last story was brilliant.

It was about a man I think who wanted to die and he goes to this place were there are other people who want to die because they have lost people. They all want to die the exact same way as their lovers did, I remember one woman her husband was a fireman and he was burned to death and she wanted to die like him etc. The doctor who owns this place wants to know what people see as they die, and as the main character dies he says something about the world been not as how we see it but as something grotesque.

I realise I'm been vague but does anybody know what I'm on about?

My current laptop is on it's way out. Plus my office bit of the laptop doesn't work. I will be writing papers on it and will probably have to hook up a printer aswell.

Is Windows XP better than Windows Vista for it's office or is there something better?

I also love listening downloading music and watching things online so media a must. Plus DVD burner.

A wireless connection a must.

Something that doesn't crash alot.

I've done plenty of research online but all the numbers and reviews make my head spin.. I need HELP!!!

I can stretch to about £1000 I suppose.