Originally posted by Yankees25:
I would suggest an IBM ThinkPad T41. If you are interested, PM me and I can you my link to access the IBM Employee Purchase Program site to get some discounted pricing.

You get 5 hours battery life standard, 7.5 on the extended life battery, and 9.5 hours with the multibay battery and extended life battery. It comes with Rapid Restore for backup and recovery, and has Active Protection on the hard drive (which parks the heads on the drive if you ever drop it). The T41 is light (5 lbs). You can get a/b/g wireless, and our wireless antennas are built into both sides of the screen, unlike our competition. I can go on and on. We've got tons more patents than anyone else out there.

If weight savings isn't that huge a deal, you can look at the R40/R50/R51 which will give you most of the same features, just not as light of a package. It'll be priced about $200-$300 less than a comparable T41.

As for the processor, I'm not sure of the benchmarks for performance, but Intel is preaching a new story now. It's no longer about the fastest Ghz processor. The Pentium M's have twice the cache of the Pentium 4's, so even though a Pentium M 1.6Ghz sounds slow compared to a P4 2.66 Ghz, it really isn't that different at all, in addition to the savings in battery life.

Good luck.



Interesting... I'll check those out. Can you or someone elaborate what the cache size does for performance? I'm a HUGE gamer and just want newest games to run fast and look pretty for at least a couple years, so which would be better for me, the faster processor or the bigger cache?

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