Originally posted by Nilsen
Have you bought a laptop yet?
Had a look at a review of the Dell D820 today (norwegian language only) and with the 9cell battery it lasted 5 hours and 20 mins. Atm the 9 cell battery here in norway costs nothing more than the 6 cell. Performance was also great. It is larger than the Thinkpad tho.
Should be within your price range.
-edit- Looking at Dell USA they even claim 6,6 hours but i trust the tested time more. It is well below your max price
So far Im just observing and using the Gateway Solo for testing thus far. Software is running, controller card is connected via RS-232 and its working ok. I'm toying with the software to guage the cpu load, etc.
I, too, like the Thinkpads. The pricing is pretty good also
