IBM\Lenovo X60 or Netbook...

MasterPlan1

MasterPlan1

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I've got a Acer 8370G, which admittedly is thin and relatively light - but I want something smaller that I can have in my bag and have as a chuck around laptop for every day usage, whether it be in the office, on the train, for usage of general office work, ssh, browsing, rdp, vpn, non-HD videos, possibly 720p, but all the shows I'm currently watching are old, so no HD..

On ze bay, you can pick up a X60 for £120 - which is a 12.1" screen, comes packing a T1300 C2S, and 1Gb RAM. I'm thinking of getting one of these, extended 8 cell battery £35, upping it to 2Gb of RAM (£12) and a 60Gb SSD (probably a Vertex) £72, taking it up to £255 inc postage.

For £255, I can get a netbook with a N455 gig of RAM and 160Gb-250Gb disk, dependant on the make I go for...

Supposidly, out of a 8 cell battery in the X60 (the one I'm looking at comes from china, so not 100% of how good it is) just shy of 6hrs, but this was quoted from a C2D version, the Netbook, I'm assuming the same battery life...

X60 weighs in at 1.65Kg without the extended battery, so probably a little bit more with. Not sure what netbooks come in at these days...

Which do you think would give the best performance out of the two, be the most ideal for my needs etc.

Discuss.
 
i'd imagine the performance of the c2s is going to be slightly better specially once you kit it out with more ram and ssd. however it is older tech i think and i think you'd be better extending the budget a little and getting something like a SU7300 or SU4100/9300 as these will handle hd and be running dual core which would be benficial to keep the experience smooth.
 
playing videos isn't a game breaker for me, I mainly want something for just on the go, durable, relatively quick booting, portable computing - if I really wanted to watch videos, I'd do it on my ipod touch, because I can't imagine videos looking all that hot on a 1024x768 screen which the X60 has, or the small res that a netbook has either.
 
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