laptops?

[Ken Moffat]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:44 -0700, Ken Moffat wrote:
>   
>> Anyone have opinions on decent laptops for home and small business?
>> Need reliability without breaking the bank, not too bleeding edge.
>>
>>     
>
> I'm using an Asus A8N and I have to say that it is, far and away, the
> best laptop I have ever used -- even better than the IBM Thinkpad I
> spent a small fortune on years ago. It's served me very well for 3 years
> and the performance is still very satisfactory. The great thing about
> Asus systems is that they use quality components that work with both
> Linux and Windows: no need to compile drivers and such.
>
> My next laptop is probably going to be another Asus, but I don't really
> like the design of recent models, so I'll wait a bit. 
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> pascal chong
>
>   

May I ask what you don't like about the recent models? (I see some 
pretty decent prices at a local retailer on 1 gig memory models, 
obviously I'd have to add another gig or 2.)