Laptop models and makes

Hi all,

I am thinking about buying a new laptop for use at uni. I would mainly use it for typing up docs, writing programs, run multimedia programs and some games. I've looked at a few models around but I don't know what I should get. I'm prepared to spend around A$ 2000 (I live in Australia)

One of my friends bought a new IBM centrino 1.3 and it looks quite good to me and the price for that model has reached a low point here. I was wondering if anyone has had personal experience with the new things and if so, would they recommend the model. The reason it looks attractive to me is because of the battery life for processing power.

Also, does IBM sell refurbished laptops at all? I've seen dell's site but not IBM's though.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Cheers,
Alf

Hi jmecor,

Thank you for your info. I've heard about the pentium-m 900MHz, but I only know that so far Toshiba is the only manufacturer that has come up with a model with that chip.

Btw, is there a difference between the centrino and the pentium-m? Is the pentium-m basically a chip without the intel lan package which is required in order to get the centrino approval?

Thanks in advance for any info.

Cheers,
Alf