I'm looking with some interest at the Lenovo x220 (and x220t) - seems to tick all the boxes and they reckon 23 hr battery with the extra 6-cell!
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:29 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos A friend just pointed out Dell have "new XPS" machines on their web site. Spec'd one up - unfortunately I couldn't justify another laptop right now so didn't click buy. :( New XPS 17" looks like a nice machine. i7 4C/8T + 8Gb ram (can go up to 12Gb), 2 drives (can even config with dual 256Gb SSD's but aftermarket is cheaper) and 1920x1080 screen (can get with 3D but I think that's silly for a laptop. Maybe when you don't need glasses for em) and 3GB NVIDIA(r) GeForce(r) GT 555M With Optimus. All that for $3200ish. That's $1000 less than I paid for my m1730 years ago. Way thinner too! 2 x usb 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0 and 1 eSata. Width: 16.3" (414.9mm) Height: 1.3" (32.8mm) front . 1.5" (38.5mm) back Depth: 11.3" (287.3mm) Weight: Starting at 3.36kg / 7.41lbs (with 6-cell battery); 3.53kg/ 7.79lbs (wtih 9-cell battery) *sighs* On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Bec Carter <bec.usern...@gmail.com<mailto:bec.usern...@gmail.com>> wrote: Apologies for asking about laptops once again, I know this comes up lots on this list. I'm looking for a small laptop for occasional .net development and demonstrations of web apps mostly, something light and between 10 and 12 inches, maybe 13 inches not sure. Alienware M11x is one that has the grunt but its pricey. Any recommendations? Cheers Bec
