Laptop dead, suggestions?

[Martin Roos]

 So for a decent laptop. My recent buy seems to be a good choice.

Asus A6K,

1600mhz turion64 cpu (probably rated as 3000+ smth),
default 512mb ram (i pushed this to 1gb),
nvidia's graphics with 128mb of dedicated graphics ram (another 128mb can be
borrowed from the operating system), tv-out
4x usb, firewire
60gb disk,
15.4" screen, a good one
no complaints about the battery yet, weight ? hell do i know, i'm a big boy
wifi (broadcom),
sd card reader (works with windows),
some kind of pc card slot (haven't researched which kind of slot this
actually is, i don't need it.
lan and sound
infrared
bluetooth
parallel port ! (who's your daddy ... erm .. ee .. )
a relic builtin modem
a builtin webcam which works over the usb interface (a driver for linux is
in works, maybe when it's ready, we can port it to *bsd aswell)
decent keyboard and touchpad (scrolling sidebar in the touchpad).


> So, I'm in the market for a new laptop.  Unless someone is donating me
> > a decent one, I'd like it to have the following characteristics:
> >       >= 1GHz speed
> >       >= 512MB RAM
> >       >= 40GB hard disk
> >       Excellent battery life
> >       light weight (< 4 pounds?)
> >       decent scren
> >       well constructed
> >       PC Card slot
> >       ExpressCard slot
> >       SD card slot (with the standard SD host interface)
> >       builtin wireless
> >
> > Does anybody have any recommendations?
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Martin Roos