Some good info there SirMoby.
Basically I'm using it for going to Internext and other trips like that. Battery power isn't that big an issue since I will be using it with outlets 95% of the time. The reason I want to pick it up now is we'll be spending all of July in Nova Scotia on the east coast and I'm not dragging my desktop down there for a month.
RAM is important to me as well as processor speed but HD space is not an issue. Besides they all come with 40gig or bigger now anyway. I don't want to spend a fortune on a laptop that I really won't be using on a daily basis but want a good one.
This is 1 I've been considering but I'm going look around a bit more:
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/specificat...2590&part=2250