laptop choice [was Re: [Liverpool] meeting report]

[Richard Smedley]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 09:46 +0000, David Watson wrote:
> Strugling with a dying laptop atm, the battery died about 6 months
> ago, the power connector keeps falling out and now the screen won't
> come on.  Just got the go ahead to order a replacement.  Looking at
> the Toshiba Pro A60, anyone have any experience with them.

Nope - we've got four thinkpads in this house (and 
my mother has a 9-year old toshiba laptop running
Debian Sarge).

What are your proirities?
Size/portability?
Power?
Battery life?
Screen real estate?
weight?

What's your budget?

Do you just want it for running GNU? Or will you
also run Plan9/FreeDOS/Haiku/OpenBSD?

 - Richard
--
(Debian GNU/Linux on a tp570)