It's big and heavy but it is great. Battery life sucks but you'll understand when you see the display on this one:

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cmod.to?seg=SMB&coid=-29488&sel=0&rcid=- 26367&ccid=1291041

Just as fast as my desktop and worth every penny. Every time I use it in public, people stop and say that it is the best (and biggest) screen they have ever seen on a laptop.

Even if you use something less, look at Toshiba. Other suggestions:

Pentium M 1GB RAM Toshiba's Tru-Brite display is the best out there.

Alan

Alan Churchill Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies" www.savian.net

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rogerio Porto Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:05 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Somewhat off-topic SAS-in-laptop

Hi SAS-in-laptop users.

Sorry for the somewhat off-topic but I've to decide on buying some laptop that's going to be used mainly for statistical consulting (i.e. liltle statistical SAS analisys, presentations, webmail etc). I'm not going to use it for games or videos, just work :-)

I've searched old SAS-L posts and the conclusions at then (2003) was:

not recommended: - Compaq (bad repair services); - AMD, Celeron; - Centrino (heavy and suck batteries); - Arm Computer;

recommended: - IBM (good repair services); - Intel Pentium 4; - Toshiba (good hardware reputation).

I'm going to use SAS for Windows, R and MS Office. Although SAS will be used, it will be used for program adjustments, trial codes and analysis with small datasets 'cause the main analysis will be made in my desktop.

Are those advices still good advices? Are there any others? How about the relation RAM vs Clock vs HD to maximize performance? Wich mobile technology? What video display? ...

TIA,

Rogerio.