Comparative Laptop Reviews?

clambert asks: "A few co-workers and I are in the market for a new laptop, but it's been incredibly difficult to try and explore what's out there. How do Sony's warranties rank up against Dell's? Can I get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the new Toshibas? What model IBMs feature DDR memory? There doesn't seem to be an AnandTech/Ars/Toms for the notebook market, and short of filtering through all the marketing hype on every {brand}.com, its tough to find out what systems offer what specs. Are there any comprehensive resources out there for those of us in the market for a new laptop?"

Comments

You must be a white guy

[artemis67]

Or if I want a good BSD system, like the song says, "Boom...there it is."

Uhh... that's "Whoop there it is"...

Airport built in (you can turn it off if you're worried, or get an Airport and bridge it to your local network at 128 bits encryption - sitting in the living room surfing the net was never so much fun ;) )

The Airport antenna is built into every new Mac (desktops and laptops), and they all have an internal slot for the Airport card, but the Airport card itself is an extra $100.

Re:You must be a white guy

[isaac]

Or if I want a good BSD system, like the song says, "Boom...there it is."

Uhh... that's "Whoop there it is"...

Actually, it's "Whoot! There it is!" (by 95 South) or "Whoomp! There it is!" by Tag Team, who followed up their smash hit with the underwhelming "Here it is, Bam!" and "Whoomp! There it went!" (Seriously, I'm not joking.)

Yes, I went to High School in the early 90s.

-Isaac

Re:You must be a white guy

[PsychoSpunk]

Actually, it's "Whoot! There it is!" (by 95 South)

I prefer the classis "w00t! There it is!" (by 31337 h4x0rZ)

Re:I love my powerbook

[Captain Large Face]

Airport built in

Handy for travel, I imagine, but must make the notebook a lot bigger?

Rabid Laptop Testimonials...

[Junta]

As long as we are on the subject of rabid laptop testimonials, I'll tell you about my laptop.

A Tadpole SparcBook 2, from 1993. A neat little thing I got from my company and it still works great, though I no longer have a working battery for it, it is neat to boot up for nostalgia's sake. Built in SCSI, AUI Ethernet, etc. Anyway, the funny thing is my home was robbed and the laptop stolen. I tried to call pawn shops to report it, and they all had the same question (so, is it a Mac, or a PC, I would say "saprc, running solaris, and they would ask "is that a DOS program? Does it say anything about intel on it? A latop *has* to be either PC or Mac, so you probably have an old 286 or 386 or something" Describing this thing to pawnshops was painful., eventually I just said if it is a laptop and you can't tell what the hell t is, it's probably mine). As it turns out, no one would buy it and they guy got caught two years later and couldn't even figure out how to turn it on, and I got it back intact. Still works great, though I'm looking for a cheap PC laptop replacement, since the SparcBook 2 is getting long in the tooth. Mac platform looks like they approach Sun quality on laptops, but is too expensive, oh well.