I’m moving on from my now almost 3 year old Dell Latitude laptop. Originally purchased as a desktop replacement, it and it’s lovely docking station served the need quite well for the first year or two. It’s since been relegated to the status of email, browsing, and remoting into my desktop. For that role it’s too damn clunky.

That combined with our dollar and a silly sale at Lenovo.com, which ends today!, adds up to me purchasing the ultraportable x61. To get the lowest price, around $1200, I had to ship it to a US address but at that price it was hard not to pull the trigger. I upgraded to 2GB ram and a 100 GB, 7200 rpm drive. There are reports out there of up to 10 to 12 hours battery life. That seems insane to me but even 6 would be a dream at that size and weight.

Now I have to wait calmly until I can get my mitts on it….

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