> Planning a 6 week trip to South America and want to take a
> laptop/notebook with me, looking for recommendations from list
> members with experience. First, is there a difference in the two
> or is it just in the name. Need something durable that can take
> backpacking, hold a ton of digital pics., wireless service (not
> familiar with wireless), email, lightweight, compact and new or
> used is fine with me.
For durability, Fujitsu and IBM are hard to beat, in my opinion.
But that durability comes at a price. There's a trede-off
between durability (and battery life) versus weight unfortunately,
so some compromises might be in order. Recently, I bought a $600
laptop off the Toshiba direct site ($700 - $100 rebate)
that was on sale, added $100 for the bigger battery (4 to 6 hours,
they say. Seems more like 3.5 to 4 in real use), and it has done
the job (builtin wireless, 15" screen, with 1.5Ghz cpu,
if I recall correctly). It may not be very rugged, but otherwise
fits the bill. I don't know if they're still selling that model.
It was originally sold only in Europe, but I guess they were
clearing out inventory for newer/faster models. It's worth
keeping an eye out ... similar Dell has lots of specials.
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