Shogun

The good news for everyone is that you can get a good, solid laptop for under a grand these days. The bad news for Vista users is that many of those laptops, even though they're sold with Vista, have nothing like enough resources to run Vista decently.

This year, from everything I've seen, has lived up to the Merrill Lynch prediction that 2007 would be the year that notebooks overtook desktops to become the bigger revenue generator for PC makers. For some companies, like Hewlett-Packard, laptops have become the single most important revenue source.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2222303,00.asp

wutske

he misses the most important thing about linux ... hardware compatibility. A friend of mine bought a €700 Toshiba laptop, installed linux on it only to find out that even how hard he looked for it, he couldn't get he soundcard to work under linux (and that was the most important reason for him to install linux, he needed linux for midi-sampling)

//edit: another problem with the cheap laptop was the lack of technical information, it took us a while before we knew what was inside the lappy.

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