I need to get a new laptop badly as my current one is way overdue for an upgrade. It’s more than 3 years old now and I keep trying to put new linux distros on it by mistake I loaded Fedora Core 2 on it, which almost killed the poor thing. It’s now been through VectorLinux and it’s finally on Debian unstable now. Unstable because I’m trying to get the shiny new GNOME 2.6 running on it so I’ve been compiling it all weekend! In any case, it hasn’t built yet so I finally gave up and am now building it on a faster machine and am hoping to transfer the binaries across to the laptop so I can finally do some development work.

I’m resisting the temptation to buy second-hand as I have already been burned once on ebay and I will never again buy a laptop without checking it out thoroughly first-hand. Dell and IBM and even Compaq are candidates so far, but I may have to go for the Dell as my budget is pretty tight. I have to admit the IBM X Series models are the ones I really fancy as they are so slim and ultra-portable.