On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Chad Walstrom wrote: > At a weight greater than four pounds, it's not so "mobile" any more. > Weight to shoot for: 3 lbs or under. Depends on what you want your laptop for. For example, I'm doing some work for a customer where my laptop is my workstation, and I'm building code all day. I want a nice big screen that can do 1600x1200 at the least (I don't want one of the crappy 17" apple screens that don't even give decent resolution!), a CPU fast enough to build code at a decent clip, and at least 1gb memory. That rules out most of the three-pounders. > Swappable module bays are a waste of weight and sacrifice sturdiness for > "flexibility." Doesn't rule out Dell - check the X200. > Do you use the laptop for all of your work? Buy two nice LCD monitors, > one for home, one for work. So spend $2000 for two LCD screens that can do 1600x1200? Really, 'lugging around' a 7lb laptop doesn't bug me in the least, certainly not $2000 worth. :) > You MUST get an 802.11 capable laptop. Agreed on that one. > * IRPort, sure > Definitely useful if you have a digital phone and want to use GSM > or GPRS. I prefer bluetooth for this -- leave the phone in my pocket, or on my desk, and don't worry about what's pointed where. :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list