I'd recommend a Toshiba because they're pretty well built and they do neat things like built-in wireless. Sony are nice when they work but their service and support sucks goats through a straw. Dell are OK, ish, but they change spec and components often and they're not amazingly reliable. IBM ThinkPads are good, reliable, have few frills and aren't that lightweight.
I spent a week looking at notebooks last summer and for weight, battery life and performance I got a Portege 2000. It's only a 12" screen and there is no floppy or CD at all; that does make it very light and very thin. 14.9/19.1mm deep and just 1.19kg. I do all disk IO over the built-in wireless when I'm at my desk, but the new Portege 2010 (http://www.computers.toshiba.co.uk/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/product_page.jsp?z=84&PRODUCT_ID=42020) has a port replicator and external optical drives, and it's got a bigger hard drive and faster processor now! With the extra battery I get 6-7 hours work from mine and it hardly adds any weight at all. I took it to the max RAM and it's a spiffy little machine, and very portable.
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Date: 2003-01-17 06:47 am (UTC)I spent a week looking at notebooks last summer and for weight, battery life and performance I got a Portege 2000. It's only a 12" screen and there is no floppy or CD at all; that does make it very light and very thin. 14.9/19.1mm deep and just 1.19kg. I do all disk IO over the built-in wireless when I'm at my desk, but the new Portege 2010 (http://www.computers.toshiba.co.uk/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/product_page.jsp?z=84&PRODUCT_ID=42020) has a port replicator and external optical drives, and it's got a bigger hard drive and faster processor now! With the extra battery I get 6-7 hours work from mine and it hardly adds any weight at all. I took it to the max RAM and it's a spiffy little machine, and very portable.