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.
>
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