I was having a browse a couple of weeks back and saw this Fujitsu Siemens P-2020 Laptop which looks good:

Fujitsu Siemens Computers LifeBook P-2020 Notebook PC with 633MHz Transmeta Crusoe processor, 128MB SDRAM DIMM, 15GB HDD, 10" TFT Display, Integrated 56K. V90 Modem, DVD-ROM Drive & Windows Me Operating System. Man. Part No. LKN:GBR-P2020-001.

Weighs 1.5 Kg and the TFT is widescreen.

£705.99

http://www.action.com/

I don't have one incidentally - yet ! ;)

[Edit: A direct link: Fujitsu site ]

Thanks

Gavin



[Edited by GavinP - 2/1/2002 1:03:24 PM]

My boss has given me an impossible task......he travels a lot and was was given a portable DVD player for xmas, but it was fixed region, so he took it back.

He has now decided what he really needs is the smallest, thinnest laptop you can get which has a built in DVD drive/player, so not only has he got a DVD player, but a business PC to use as well.

Any suggestions? - my immediate thought was a Sony Vaio CV1e thingy, but it has no built in CD. - he doesnt want to have to cart around loads of drives & cables stuff like that!

Can the Power of Scoobynet(tm) help.......?

Fuji do one, i think its called a Loox-T

Apple titanium?

Can vouch for the Apple Titanium - DVD playback ain't 'arf bad either...
:cool:

get yourself a copy of the March edition of PCmag - reviews all the top contenders in this category
winners were Evesham Voyager SLE c800 and Toshiba Portege 4000

Paul W

Another vote for Apple's Powerbook G4 'Titanium' Can be made region free very easilly indeed, have done this myself on the two I have.

about an inch thick, pretty light, good battery life, excelent quality screen, which equates, I believe to wide screen, perfect for DVD's. I use it quite a bit when travelling by train.

more info here

if you decide to go the apple route, I'd suggest chatting to AllanB, might be able to get you a good price.

what about an ibm thinkpad x22? they are rock solid and dvd playback is good too. i think they now have built-in 802.11b wireless, which is good for taking advantage of public wireless internet access points in airports and such.

You _may_ have a problem. Most new PC DVD drives come with RC protection which means that you can only change the region 5 times - this is enforced within the drive firmware itself.

You can often find patches for older drive firmware without the protection but that's pretty dodgy.

I've got a Toshiba Portege from Work. Bloody light and small as everything is external. I can vouch for all Toshiba kit. It's all great in my opinion.

Darren

Dr Hu, I'll see what I can come up with over the next few days for you.


AllanB

www.sharp.co.uk

Muramasa.

It has to be the Apple G4. Stunning piece of kit with a widescreen format display, too. A friend took his along skiing with us and it is superb: excellent display, excellent OS, excellent battery life. Survived being clouted on the floor with not a scratch - the metallic cover is "self healing".

If I had the money, I'd buy one in a shot. Forget the fact it's not a PC as he'll be able to do all his word processing, email, surfing etc.

It also looks damn good. Apple understand desire through design!

Nick.

Thanks for the info.....the SHARP doesnt have a DVD drive built in...although its damn thin! sorry BarryK;)

The Fujitsu looks the most promising....anyone actually used one of these?

The Apple is soooo tempting....but how will it integrate into our network here at work? What about MS Office, can he save files on his mac then open them on a PC? Will this just be a nightmare in confusion....and me saying sorry you can't do that with this....doh!
He runs accounts and stuff in Quicken...can you get that for mac?
How about Windows emulators - crap??

TIA

If you get the latest office for mac then you can open files from PC on mac and vice versa.

As for network integration, well, if you're talking about connecting to servers then depends what servers you have. If Windows then you could use DAVE by thursby systems which allows direct SMB connections to the PC servers, or you could install Services for Macintosh on the server and share out things for mac, but I seriously doubt that IT support would go for this.

As for other PC apps, and also the network connectivity, you want to look at Virtual PC by Connectix. It's basically PC emulation, and it;s pretty quick. I'm running v4 on my G4 466 and I have win 98, NT4 and Win 2000 server on it, and it runs pretty quickly. If you're not planing on playing games it should be able to run any PC stuff you can throw at it.

you can get a demo of it as well.

hope this helps out.