laptop purchase

Looking to buy a laptop for grad school:

my requirements are: under $1000, under 5 lbs, and otherwise as updated as possible.

I found one that looks good, but was wondering if there were any other comparable ones out there, and whether this one is as good as it seems:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1777945,00.asp

looking for suggestions...

thanks!

Avertech and Acer are cheaper companies. The sempron is a good processor. It is like a celeron on steroids. I believe it has 4 channels so it can push the data at the same speed as a celeron but has more pathways for the data to flow. If you really need tiny and dont care about small scren size and want the power and battery life of a centrino check out the tiny vaios although I dont really think they meet your budget. Dell also just released like an ultra small laptop starting at i think 2.7 lbs but it is like $1600.



Just some stuff to check out...



http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5920.html

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5948.html

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5962.html

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5936.html

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5935.html



If you really want as small as humanly possible, than an OQO is for you... http://www.oqo.com/

Moving overseas (US Marines).....



Love this laptop but need to sale. If your interested abeljdavila@aol.com.... your getting alot for the money.



Very quick and was preinstalled with XP Windows Professional, XP Office Professional, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Publisher, & Visual Studio.net (ide for Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, Visual C# .NET, and Visual J# .NET).



Specs below:

Like New: will sale for half price $850 o.b.o.

CPU Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz

L2 Cache 512KB

Memory 256+256MB DDR RAM (1GB Max)

Hard Drive 40GB (4200 rpm)

Display 15" SXGA+ TFT (1400 x 1050)

Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon (AGP 4x) with 64MB Shared Video RAM

Optical Drive DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive

FDD Built In

Audio AC97 Audio

Modem 56k V.92

Network Fast Ethernet

PCMCIA 1 x Type II or 1 x Type III

Pointing Device Touchpad

Interfaces 1 x Parallel, 1 x VGA, 3 x USB 2.0, Mic, Headphone, 1 x RJ11, 1 x RJ45, 1 x IrDA, 1 x TV Out

Weight 3.49kg

Battery 8 Cell Li-Ion / 4400mAh / up to 2 hours