uh i read the thread and was shocked *shocked* that no one recommended the road warrior weapon of choice:
thinkpads (either lenovo or the real IBM ones) any of them are great. but if you're looking for ultra-kick-ass go for the T500 (or wait for the T500s) the T400s are worthwhile too if you're a girly-man w/ puny tiny arms that can't stand the weight of 5lbs on your waif-like shoulders. why thinkpad? other than the fact that's it's easy as pie to slap in a 500G hd (for $120 on new egg) and 8GB of mem (HOLY GEEZ!) I would say the killer is the 8hrs of battery life. i currently have an x61 and use it as my "netbook killer". it mocks silly atom based machines w/ its core duo + 4GB/500GB and sub 4lbs weight. battery life? last friday i forgot to plug in the brick and used it hard till ~ 5pm when the battery warning finally started flashing @ me. so the list in order of most badassness: T400s T500 T400 T61 x61 --timball ps) dells + HPs suck -- GPG key available on pgpkeys.mit.edu pub 1024D/511FBD54 2001-07-23 Timothy Lu Hu Ball <timb...@tux.org> Key fingerprint = B579 29B0 F6C8 C7AA 3840 E053 FE02 BB97 511F BD54 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---