Dell Inspiron 8600
Mine has a Pentium M 1.5 (not the
P4M which blows compared to this one!), 512 of DDR 2700, 60 gb drive. I opted not to get the DVD burner because if I want DVD's burned I'll get syko to do them for me. While it is a Centrino with integrated wireless (for use at the house), I use a TrueMobile 1150 PCMCIA card for Stumbling and so forth. I use Windows XP Pro and use Knoppix STD .1 for work-related stuff. Biggest thing I like about this series is it's one of the few new laptops that still has a serial port, and the widescreen laptop is pimp with netstumbler or for dvd movies, two IE windows side by side, etc.
Used to have a Compaq Presario 906, but the cd drive/burner crapped out and the hd pretty much crashed. If anyone is looking for a junk/parts laptop (14 inch Presario 900 series/Evo series-type screen in perfect condition) pm me.