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If linux is your thing try one of
these

Not quite as high in specs, but it's less than half the price.
I have a c860 with a 1 gb SD card and I've not had much desire for a laptop since getting it.
My main portable use is just e-mail, web and wireless network auditing, so the little c860 with pdaXrom works fine for me.

FWIW, the Panasonic R3 uses between 5W (LCD off, no wifi) and 12W (LCD max brightness, wifi used). You can learn what the real-time power consumption is by reading, for example, /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state under Linux. I have this laptop and I was not aware that Power-on-Ethernet was able to provide 15W. It would be *so* cool to be able to run this laptop with just an Ethernet plug plugged in. You would not have to carry with you anymore the power adaptor (and its cables). Combined with the standard 9h battery, this would be a killer feature.

It's a basically a ultra-compact PC, it has four USB 2.0 ports as well as a Firewire port. You can obviously just connect an external CD, HDD, or DVD+/-RW, ipod, whatever, to it.

For multimedia, it should also run any app or codec that is available for WinXP, if they could get the price below $1,000 I'm sold.

But the U50 and U70 aren't available in the US, these guys sell them here, but they charge $1999 for the U50 and $2599 for the U70. Yikes.

Why dont we see lower power laptops? ...using current tech for low power consumption they could make a laptop that has say a 500-600mhz processor and a trans-reflective TFT display like that on PDA's as well as using a hard drive/ram/flash combo to give me 3-4 days run time.

I've heard that Sony is deprecating the Clié UX line in favor of its VAIO type U "superportable notebook." Gimme 3-4 days of run time on one of those mothers & I'd probably end up unemployed (for dereliction of duty)!

A lot of folks with smartphones wouldn't mind 3-4 days of run time (not just standby) from a charge...

Getting connected is a must. X505 gives you the
option to connect to your network through USB to
LAN adapter or Wireless (WIFI card is included)

The full review on one page is available here.

Also, I must say, that is quite the small laptop. And you can see the fingerprints all over it in one of the photos on the main article. :-)

There are other images available here as well.

http://www.icube.us/panasonic_w2/product_spec.htm

It says upgradeable to 512MB. Dynamism sells a DIFFERENT version with a 1GHz CPU, this W2 has a 900MHz CPU.

iCube model: CF-W2AW1AXP

Dynamism model: CF-W2BW3AXP
http://www.dynamism.com/w2/specs.shtml

Do you see the difference?

Specs from Panasonics website: http://www.panasonic.com/computer/notebook/pdf/TBw 2.pdf

If you had read the review, you'd have seem I referenced ICube, too. ICube generally has lower prices.