Fujitsu Siemens LIFEBOOK P5020D (fpcm20206) PC Notebook

Pros: full featured, small size and weight, great battery life
Cons: expensive, smaller keyboard size, small(but sharp)screen

Portability is a key feature for many of today's electronics: mp3 players, pda's, pagers, cell phones, etc. Laptops are no exception. In general what small size gives you is usually balanced by the negatives of higher expense, shorter battery life, ...

Pros: bright screen, small size, long battery life, built-in CDRW/DVD-Rom, built-in wi-fi.
Cons: small keyboard, small screen, no traditional printer/monitor/mouse plugs.

What’s with the new notebooks? Manufacturers are making them bigger and bigger. Have you seen the new HP Media Edition laptop? That thing is gigantic. That’s why it took me a long time to find this computer. Don’t get me wrong, you can ...

Pros: Size size size
Cons: No direct VGA connector. Tiny right-shift. Tiny arrow keys.

I love it.

I only wish that HP and Dell would wise up and pack high-resolution in a small package. Then the pricing would drop in half to more normal levels for such products.

The Sony variant is a better choice if you shoot PPT's because the VGA port is right there. Fujitsu version requires a quickly-lost adaptor.

The Fujitsu has better Flash memory slot support.

Arrow keys should be larger and away so right-shift can be touch-typed. The Fujitsu keys are better formed than Sony's. Both have poor placement and sizing for touch typists. Hope Fujitsu reads this and learns that touch typists don't need palm rests.

Drivers for HDTV modes are missing. I'm told they can be downloaded from the chipset vendor but not Fujitsu site. Maybe someone else will know more by then...