[Joeaksa]

Sebring,

Sounds like you need it for traveling and internet access when on the road. I used to travel 220 nights a year in hotels, now its slacked off to "only" 120 a year so have a bit of experience here.

I have used the gamut of Dell and IBM laptop's. Like the IBM better but my boss works for Dell so you can guess which ones we buy! I have a Latitude 600 now and like it a lot better than the old one I had. This one is a 2 mhz machine and nice. Reason I have it is the older one had a built in floppy and weighed 8 pounds with the charger and that is just too damm heavy.

Newer one weighs 4.5 without the charger and has no floppy. Do not really need nor want one and use the DVD/CD drive or WiFi or network to something that does the job. Get the largest HD you can on the puppy and extra RAM is your friend, otherwise they are not that much different.

Buy it with an AmEx or MC/Visa card that has the "extended warranty" on it that doubles the factory warranty for free. If you do not have it on your CC, then call them and ask as the Dell or IBM "extended warranty" costs too much IMHO.

JoeA