Anecdote: I can run Hulu fullscreen on my 32" 1080p television from my 4 year old Dell laptop, running Windows XP(!) - a laptop which cost me all of $700 when I

Anecdote: I can run Hulu fullscreen on my 32" 1080p television from my 4 year old Dell laptop, running Windows XP(!) - a laptop which cost me all of $700 when I bought it. It has 2gb of RAM and an Intel Core Duo processor T2300 (2MB Cache/1.66GHz/667MHz FSB) Flash can layer sounds, which is something that HTML5 can theoretically do, but if I want to, say, emulate a drum machine, there's so much more I can do in Flash that HTML5 is apparently years from being capable of speedily, let alone capable of doing speedily. Additionally, I imagine it will be some time before there's an HTML5-integrated equivalent to the Flash Media Server which drives so many video sites. If you can't run Hulu without lag on whatever your current system is, I recommend you seek out a Dell E1505 laptop. It's four years old, mine was $700 when I bought it new (from the Outlet, mind you) so they can't be that expensive now.