ultraportable

[Mary Hardy]

I'm tired of lugging my heavy laptop around to every meeting. I'm looking for a nice light compact laptop that will keep me connected, and allow me to carry work and presentations around. I also don't want to faff about with external drives, so integrated DVD ROM would be good. I'm looking at the Sony Viao TR3, because it's so very pretty and I am shallow.

Anyone got one of these, or a better suggestion?

[DW Simpson]

When I looked into this a year or so ago (but never got around to buying anything), I thought the Vaio was the way to go. It's sweet in person.

Here's a comparison: http://reviews.cnet.com/Notebooks/45...5021302-7.html

[Abnormal]

I've got the Viao - great little machine.

More than powerful enough for most things I want to do on the road (keyboard is perhaps a touch small for my hands). Pretty good battery life - last time we flew from Toronto to Vancouver my kids managed to watch two movies with an earphone splitter before it died on them.

[GadgetGeek]

Originally Posted by Abnormal

my kids managed to watch two movies with an earphone splitter before it died on them.

Thats a pretty impressive earphone splitter. And here I went and spent all that money on a portable DVD player.

[Wannabe Actuary]

The one drawback of Sony used to be that there was no floppy and you would need a pen drive...now, that's the norm anyway, so the Sony is a great way to go.

[Mary Hardy]

Talked to our supplier today, he recommended the Fujitsu P7010 -- as more reliable than Sony and better value for money. The Sony's prettier, but the balance of internet opinion seems to go for the Fujitsu.

[Brad Gile]

Originally Posted by GadgetGeek

Thats a pretty impressive earphone splitter. And here I went and spent all that money on a portable DVD player.

I gave my 6 year old grandson a portable DVD player + a couple movies for his birthday. His mom and dad tell me that was a godsend on a recent trip.

Brad

[Curare]

Originally Posted by Mary Hardy

Talked to our supplier today, he recommended the Fujitsu P7010 -- as more reliable than Sony and better value for money. The Sony's prettier, but the balance of internet opinion seems to go for the Fujitsu.

I agree. The Fujitsu P7010 seems more reliable and the Atheros wireless card has better reception than the Intel cards. Check out this excel spreadsheet from the Fujitsu forums comparing various ultra portables. Eventhough the table shows that the P7010 takes a msximum RAM of 1GB, the machine will take up to 2GB.

The one thing I like about the Sony is the bluetooth capabilities.

[petera]

Originally Posted by Curare

I agree. The Fujitsu P7010 seems more reliable and the Atheros wireless card has better reception than the Intel cards. Check out this excel spreadsheet from the Fujitsu forums comparing various ultra portables. Eventhough the table shows that the P7010 takes a msximum RAM of 1GB, the machine will take up to 2GB.

The one thing I like about the Sony is the bluetooth capabilities.

I totally agree with you. Sony and its parts are expensive! For me, I used Toshiba and Fujitsu, which are very reliable. Please pay attention to the laptop harddisk. I had a terribly experience with Acer. The harddisk was broken two times within the warranty. Even though the harddisk was replaced, all my info was lost!