Re: Any recommendations for (lightweight) laptop?

kit wrote:
Hi,

A friend is looking to buy a laptop and asked me for advice.
Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about laptops so maybe someone
here might be able to help.

Essentials...:
PC based (ie not Apple)
Running Windows XP or later
USB ports (at least 2)
Serial port

This is going to be your main limiting factor.
You can get USB to serial adaptors for under a tenner , but they are not as
reliable as the real thing when used to connect to networking kit.

A touch pad controller (as opposed to a little 'stick' controller -
which can be quite slow and fiddly to use)
As light as possible - a sub-notebook rather than a laptop would be
ideal (I mean a thin, slightly smaller and lighter style of laptop,
rather than a mini machine of the size of the old Psions).
Rugged/all environment opperation
New enough for us to obtain a second battery for

I've got a Dell latitude D810 which meets all your requirements apart from
the "small and light". It really is a very nice bit of kit.
The D610 and D510 are more in the right direction for you in terms of weight
and do still have the serial port.

The other manufacturer I'm aware of that make laptops with COM ports are
Samsung. The P29 is a current model that will do the job but it's not tiny
I'm afraid
--
Alex

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