I have always imagined laptops to be the ideal in computing, when I was about 10 I turned a toy suit-case into an imaginary computer, screen made of paper and cellophane and keyboard made of paper, I used to imagine what it would be like to be able to play computer games on this anywhere.
Now to come back to the point, I have been a laptop user since Kitt Mark1, I think 2001, I have always had 2nd hand laptops, Kitt Mark2 wasn't but it was a bad replacement due to Kitt Mark1 being stolen. After using MrHankey for a while it died, after its screen mysteriously ceased working, enter Gandalf the white, my current laptop, new, and more powerful than most peoples desktops... and some peoples servers (including my own as of writing this)
Gandalf is an MSI s271, a small, lightweight powerhouse. Below are the specs.
-AMD Turion 64bit TL-56 1.8ghz dual core.
-1gb of ddr 667 ram
-ATI Radeon Xpress 200
-12.1" display
-80gb 7200rpm pata drive
-Dual layer dvd-burner
-Built-in 802.11g, bluetooth and Gig-e
-Built-in SD/mmc/ms slot
-Running Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy
-All this weighing in at under 1.9kg

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I do use it on the bus(like now) and many other places, to play games, and do work, read emails etc, my boyish dream come true right? Nope it wasn't as easy as Fiona's IBM to get working, moral of the story, stick with non-brand spanking hardware, and stuff that has had the bugs worked out online. It was not as if I hadn't done my research, I just though I could fix it, and I guess I sorta have now, as I write this on Gandalf.