New or used laptop recommendation(s)

[Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere]

Hi,

I've gone through a couple of Sony's, don't want to repeat that, and I'm
looking for suggestions.

I've a critical app running on some RELENG_6 boxen, and because I'm almost
always either off-grid and power limited, or simply down-link of a VSAT,
with the latency/bandwidth limitations that imposes, I need to run RELENG_6,
to mirror my distant (back in Maine) apps running on my 1U set.

The IBM t41 (Randy)? Dell laptoppen?

Cluebat to forehead please, I'll summarize, etc., and thanks in advance,
Eric