Looking for an Ultra Portable

[Big Booger]

The other day a co-worker asked me to fix one of his laptops.. So I said yes,

It was a Fujitsu FMV Biblio Loox T series.. with the crusoe chip 662mhz, 128mb ram, 10gb HDD, 10.6" screen.. tiny but very nice keyboard..

He had ME installed.. and it sucked.. Somehow he got it stuck in a blue screen cycle that, even when trying to boot to safemode.. created another blue screen..

So I having acquired a copy of J-XP.. refurbed his Loox for him..

Well, I got to use it for about 2-3 days while repairing it and I have fallen for that series.. they keyboard fits nicely for such an Ultra portable.. it is compaq yet supports a 1280X600 wide screen resolution.. DVDs look extra sweet.. the extended battery offers 7 hours of usability.. so you can watch the entire DVD on the battery.. though it sticks out 1.5cm in the front of the keyboard..

I want one so bad that I have decided to go ahead and get one..

Question is should I go for the FMV Loox T series:

Specifically the following one:
Fujitsu Loox T90D or the other T60D?

http://www.fmworld.net/product/hard/pcpm0305/biblo_loox/t/method/index.html

I mean they weigh around 3 pounds.. are nearly silent.. the T90D has the DVD multidrive.. DVD burning

The T60 has a slower processor Celeron 600... the T90D has the Pentium M 900mhz...

T60 has 512kb of on die L2 cache.. T90 has 1MB..

both use 64Mb of main memory for graphics rendering..

512MB max system ram.. not too keen on that fact because longhorn is supposedly to be the "RAM Eating OS"

Now the price comparison:

http://www.kakaku.com/prdsearch/detailspec.asp?ItemCD=002002&MakerCD=30&Product=FMV%2DBIBLO+LOOX+T60D%2FW

with complete spec details for the T60D above.


And now for the T90D below:

http://www.kakaku.com/prdsearch/detailspec.asp?ItemCD=002002&MakerCD=30&Product=FMV%2DBIBLO+LOOX+T90D


T60D=150000 Yen.. roughly

T90D=200000 Yen.. roughly

What do you think is best? I'll use it mainly at work, and on the go.. Sometimes I might watch a flick on it.. it won't be my work horse PC..

Of course I'll want to upgrade it.. so which do you think is best?

Do you have any other ideas about a sub 4 pound notebook? i'd prefer something around the 3 pound mark..

I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.

[Caustic Saint]

I say go for the T90D. Sure, it costs more - but it's faster, has more cache and has that sweet DVD-RAM.

The silver one looks better, but the plusses on the T90D outweight the bland color.

[Big Booger]

yah more than likely that will be the one I get.

Had I not had to pay my 60000Yen speeding ticket.. I would have already purchased it.. :P

Got to wait to the next payday.


Anyone have any similar models made by other companies.. the one's I looked at couldn't compare to the Fujitsu Biblio Loox..

I'm still open and looking for anything that is ultra portable yet contains the umph of the Loox.

[Big Booger]

Thanks UG for that.. All that information makes the decision a lot more informed. The T70E is just as good as the T90D..

Time will tell I suppose which I select.. Still waiting. Also nice to know they hold up to 1gig of ram rather than 512MB.