Hi Guys
No problem, I know we are sometimes after cheap kit to provide to our Asawa's and Mahals so these machines look ok to me - as for which brand is better I too have been in IT for 27 years and have had a whole raft of different Laptops - my preference is Dell but I have had a few IBM Thinkpads and dont have a bad word to say.
The X61 for sale here are 12" screens highly portable and with Core 2 CPU's are fast enough for even watching HD Video, slightly larger than a netbook but far more usable.
At around 90quid they are very cheap!! Its probably worth getting Ubuntu thrown on these as its free, keeps 90% of the worlds viruses away (being a non Windows O/S) and is quite easy to navigate. It comes with Mozilla FireFox and you can install open office - makes an easy low cost solution..
Cheers
Tone
