Apples come with webcams built into the case.
Be very careful of Vista. Check it out everywhere you can that is not a M$oft site. My son bought a dual core Toshiba similar to this one about 6 mos ago. A lot of his programs he had - will not run on vista without an upgrade ($$) - or missing drivers, or upgrades not available yet- too new.
He contacted Toshiba- they said they were 'working on that...."
Try to see if you can get it with XP Pro(not Home) & with ability to upgrade to Vista... later.(like 1 or 2 years when they issue SP's & get the bugs fixed -just like XP SP2 had to be done)