Hi,

A friend of mine wants a new laptop. Must be reasonably fast but as small and light as possible, and be wireless ready.

Any suggestions? :confused:

Thanks,

Jon.

Macbook?

I would say a mac too or my old on which is about to be donated to my old man...old lol it's still faster in real world than our new work ones hahahaaaa....mac book pro aye my next machine when my desktop expires.

I'd go for the Mac as well... bought an iBook 2 yrs ago and i've never looked back, I now have a mac mini to go with it

Dell X300 is an excellent machine (x1 now replaced it and that is nice too)

The mac is a bit nicer in some ways, but teh X300/X1 are ultra protable and for

Are the laptops Tesco have any good? the specs always look reasonable for the price.

Also whats this Pentium D dual core all about?

I have the same problem, want a light and small laptop, ideally with at least a 12" screen.

I like one of the Sony Viao but is £1800, Samsung also do some small light ones aswell.

Anyone got any experience with either make?

Dell....

The X300 isnt very powerful (only a 1.1gig cpu)

check out the XPS M1210... its a powerful notebook with a ikkle 12" screen.

but if you want some robustness, look at the latitude series... the D420 and D520 are kinda "thin and light"

ive got a D620 which is still pretty light for the power it has

After my Mum's experience with a Mac laptop, I wouldn't recommend them :( In fact, every laptop I've looked into recently seems to have issues of one kind or another!

Chris

Sony Vaio SZ1HP, then upgrade RAM via crucial website to 1Gb for

Macbook is hardly what I would call light.

If you MUST have a laptop, my work's Toshiba Portege M400 is pretty cool.

I evaulated several for work, and settled on that.

It's actually a Tablet PC, so you can swivel the screen around, fold it flat, pop out the stylus and use the handwriting recognition! It comes with some drawing software and is FAR better than using a graphics tablet for drawing.

It's got a 12.1" semi-hardened screen, DVD-RW, Wireless G, Bluetooth, built in mic etc etc etc. Centrion Duo, 512MB RAM (mine's got 1GB!), screen supports 1400x1050 resolution and is build resonably well.

My only gripe with it is the sound quality from the speakers, but you can plug headphones in to sort that out!

Dell....

The X300 isnt very powerful (only a 1.1gig cpu)

check out the XPS M1210... its a powerful notebook with a ikkle 12" screen.

but if you want some robustness' date=' look at the latitude series... the D420 and D520 are kinda "thin and light"

ive got a D620 which is still pretty light for the power it has [/quote']

I have the 410 and it's good.

My fathers X300 had a 1.4Ghz CPU in it, and the X1 has something more i forget which. Either way if you want lots of power then you don't get light.

I think we are talking cross purposes here as I really wouldnt call a D600/610/620 a small or light laptop.