hi and yes this had been done lots of time...but this time it's on the main three guys: IBM / Sony and Toshiba.
I'm planning to get an affordable laptop this September for college and boy am i lucky three big guys offers a good (if not best) for my money.

Recently three of these guys released an affordable model that fits into my budget.


Toshiba's S-100:

800 Cel
128 mb
13 TFT
15 gb
8 mb Trident
cd/
56k/lan build-in
1 years warranty
2.5 battery life
6.x pound
1799$ CND

Sony's new hot SR33 (just came out this month I believed)

600 Cel
128 mb
10 TFT
10 gb
8 mb S3
cd
56k
3 month/ (w/registration 1 yr)
3-5 hrs battery life
2.99 pound
1' thick
1699$ CND

ibm's i 1200
700 Cel
64 mb
10 bg
8 mb Trident
dvd
56k/lan build in
2 hr battery life
6.x pound
1 yr warranty
1499$ CND

Right now I have sony's SR33 berried deep in my mind after I saw the flyer couple days ago, however my friend and I had negative experience with sony. He had a laptop 2 years ago and it's kina screwed up and the warranty was over...it cost him 200$ Canadian just for the sony tech guy to look at and for it's a WM-EX5 anniversary walkman made out of aluminum and a monther after the warranty was up...it ****s up internally....o boy it sure costed hell lots of money to fix which i don't think it's worth the repair.

Sony's durable reputation has gone down.

anyway, what do you think?

thanks