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I'm thinking about buying a laptop for uni as well since it is a hassle bringing my rig each term.

Thing is, my uncle has this perfect little notbook from Dell. It's only like a P3 or something. Probably about 12-13 inches wide and really thin. He managed to get it when they were selling off old stock at his work for about £300.

For me size is the priority and it just impossible to find a compact notebook for a decent price these days because the emphasis is on the cpu speed and spangly features. A 1GHz machine with a 10gig hard drive, CDRW (poss DVD),256MB ram, 10/100, modem could be squeezed into a really small form factor these days but they don't exist -the low speed would allow for longer battery life as well and would do everything your average businessman / me, student needs. I HATE fat laptops (most seem to be 1.5inches+ thick unless you head towards £2000).

And don't even get me started on teh whole £1=$1 pricing policy, when its getting closer to £1=$1.8 (yes that means europeans are getting screwed over).

Edit: OK, so I just looked at those ASUS ones and they 13 inchers dont seem a bad size or speed or price. Just that by the time you get them shipped to the UK there's 17.5% on top of the exchange rate. Still they come to around £850 which isnt bad, to buy here they would be £1k+ I'm sure. Just need to buy a power adapter then....I get the feeling that once I get back home and have a job for the summer, my credit card is going to take a hit...

edit again: they come with autoswitching euro/us voltage adapters. Can't wait to get home now