Just ordered a special Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m (university offer) should be good.

Intel Core duo T2400 1.83GHz
Windows Vista Business (got a free copy)
15.4" WSXGA 1680x1050
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Bluetooth
56K V.92 Designed Modem
2048MB PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR-RAM
100GB Hitachi 7200RPM SATA Hard disk
80GB 5400RPM SATA Hard disk (secondary bay)
DVD-R (Multiburner)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB Video RAM
Fingerprint reader

and all the normal.

($1514 ~ RM5600)

I can't wait!!

This post has been edited by hoongern: Jan 14 2007, 10:33 AM

Lenovo and Harvard University have a special partnership which enables me to buy at 43% discount... unfortunately the deals are only for uni affiliates. hehe..

The base system was actually with only 1GB RAM and a 80GB HDD (everything else being the same), for RM4.7k

People who are currently studying/working here. Yes, it's a very good deal. The bad/unfortunate part is that other people cannot buy at the reduced price, hehe..

This post has been edited by hoongern: Jan 14 2007, 12:02 PM

Yeah I'm studying over here.. But I can't resell it unfortunately (Anyway I'm not going back home to M'sia for quite some time) .. Btw I didn't realise - it doesn't seem that M'sia has released the Z61t / Z61m (which is the one I'm getting) in M'sia yet?

Yeah, the palmrest thing is quite pesky, requires quite a lot of force to actually take it off. It definitely makes it harder for someone to steal your RAM!

Instructions to open it should be in the Thinkpad service booklet

Btw, 4GB is just not worth it at the moment. For me, I'm lucky because the software I use has distributed computer support so I can utilize multiple computers to do my work - much cheaper. Btw depending on the work you do, 4GB is way way not enough. For me to properly do work, I'd need around 16gigs, but oh well. Hard disks are so slow.