lightweight laptops

[composerjk]

The laptop I owned in the mid-1990s was 4 pounds and about 1 inch thick. Since then, it has seemed wrong to have a laptop that was heavier than that. That's been one of the reasons I don't have an Apple laptop. Today, they finally announced a laptop at 3 pounds and about 3/4" thick. 13 years from that first DEC HiNote Ultra we announced to the

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[fruitylips]

My first thought on seeing it was that it would break in about 5 min or my normal abuse that I put laptops through. I miss my old Dell Latitude LS just for the size and weight. It lasted me almost a year before it fell apart.

The only laptop I've ever had that seemed to live up to the abuse I am apt to throw at it was the 2.5 years that I used it was a 2nd hand IBM ThinkPad T-23.

I'd like a tiny little machine again. This one certainly qualifies. I suppose I'll wait and see how they hold up.

[composerjk]

The DEC HiNote Ultra was reasonably built, too, as I recall. The ThinkPads have generally been the better built laptops out there. And they have my favored pointing stick. We'll see how long I wait.

[bk2w]

2GB is proving to be ample memory for my MacBook Pro running Leopard. Heavy use of Firefox and World of Warcraft and I essentially never hit swap. Since this is not the kind of machine one would want to do image manipulation of movie editing on, I think 2GB is fine.

[composerjk]

I was finding slowness on my old G4 tower (due to memory) in similar usage to what I'd do on the laptop, though perhaps I'm misremembering that I had 2GB on it. I pay attention to system usage. Thanks for the input on your experience.

There's also a chance of wanting to run a 1GB VMWare Fusion image for some work related thing that would be better staying up during the workday.

If they'd had 4GB, the decision would be a little easier.