Looking for a new compact lightweight laptop

[Reaper948]

Anyone have any ideas? I need it to have good power and what not... my last laptop was 10 pounds, and now I'm looking for one around 4-5..........

[jdando]

I have a Dell Lattitude D400. Rock solid stability, nice and light.

jeremy

[DeepSea117]

I'd check out Fujitsu's Lifebook. The P-Series is very lightweight, I have the older P5000 series. The P7000 series came out less than a year ago.

I've had no issues really except for Windows XP's service pack 2, but so did everyone else :)

It is very lightweight, and allows an extra battery to be loaded, giving you around 9 hours of battery life with both batteries. The primary battery gives you about 4-5. This laptop also contains slots for different types of multimedia, like SD cards, MMC, memory stick for sony, compact flash, and even has a thumbprint scanner.

All by itself, this weighs less than 4 pounds. I've heard nothing but praise for both the 5000 and 7000 series on cnet.com. I suggest getting the extra warranty to bring it up to 3 years (laptops are much harder to take care of, hardware-wise)

Laptops Incorporated (http://www.laptopsinc.com) deals with Fujitsu in the US, and so does Fry's electronics. Let me know if you have any more questions.

[FordNut]

I just got a Dell 600m. The 700m is even smaller, but the keypad was too small to suit my fingers.

[BK_GrandMarquis]

Check out the Sony Vaio T series. Very small and decent battery life at about 4-6 hours with power management. It can be configured with a DVD writeable and I think 1.5 gigs of RAM.

IBM also just came out with a Tablet PC based on their small laptop. I don't know the specifics but it might be something to look at.

[Walrod]

I've had really good luck with Averatec notebooks (www.averatec.com). They are very inexpensive, very light, and pretty well-built. We have one of the 3200 series (12" screen and about 4 lbs) and one of the 6200 series. I'm a computer programmer, we have six or seven notebook computers around the house, and they all get a lot of use.

[Marauderjack]

Averatec gets my vote as well......I'm on my second one and very pleased!!! :beer:

If you ever call them for assistance they are live on the phone in less than a minute and all of them speak ENGLISH!!!! ;) :confused:

Marauderjack :D

[ckadiddle]

We have had a Toshiba for a couple years. It has survived a couple or three drops to hard floor without a scratch or hiccup.

[Skiordie53]

we have 2 dell latitude d600 series, great machines no issues even with win xp sp2

[GreekGod]

I've decided on the 6.9 pound $2700 MAC notebook. I despise the Windows XP operating system so much I'm going to the Mac as a protest. I'll probably end up hating Mac OS too as I must be getting too old to learn.

[FordNut]

. I despise the Windows XP operating system.
I'll second that one!

W2K as good as it ever was.... downhill from there.