Try the Fujitsu S6210...great thin-and-light. On 13-Aug-2004 William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:24:17PM -0400, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: >> thinkpads are attractive, but a 1.5GHz machine costs more than a >> 2.8GHz dell. that's hard to justify on a budget. > > In June I got a hankering for a new laptop, but my 500mhz P3 12" 4lb > 30GB built-in ethernet/firewire Sony Vaio laptop from 1999 still works > just fine for the majority of things a laptop is well-suited for. A 12" > screen is a must for using on an airplane when the guy in front of you > leans his seat back; lighter is *always* better. These values trump CPU > power: because no matter how much CPU power you have in a laptop you are > held back by relatively slow hard drives. > > Since money was a factor for me too, the only laptop I could possibly > justify was just a $700 7lb 2.4 Celeron, a giant brick to just use as a > thin client / office / web client. If not that, then just get one of > the 7lb $1500 no-battery-getting desktop P4 models. There is *no* tasty > thin-and-light laptop on the market ATM, no sweet spot for > price/performance. The only laptops worth buying these days all way 6-7 > pounds. So I decided to get *no* laptop and just keep my old 4 pounder. > > Instead I spent $500 on a top of the line HP ipaq w/ 400 mhz processor, > bluetooth, wireless ethernet, built-in-keyboard; $300 on a bluetooth > gps; $200 on 2 512mb SD memory cards; and $30 on a nice leather case. > > Much more bang for the buck. I can still use my old 500mhz PC as a thin > client. > > There isn't a thin-and-light laptop on the market today that I would > buy. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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