Personally, I have a Uniwill 259IA3 (purchased at
viciouspc.com as the shogun) 1.7GHz P-M. I will not
recommend it. For my purposes, it works great. But
the battery life sucks and the CPU fan is quite noisy.
After purchasing it, I saw the Toshiba Tecra A4
(http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cmod.to?seg=HHO&coid=-28907&sel=0&rcid=-26367&ccid=1291021).
It has newer components and has the nicest feature;
the keyboard is offset to the right which lines the
center home-row to the screen. Perfect for late night
hacking in a hotel room. But I can't vouch for
battery life or quality, but parts should be easier to
come by than this Uniwill thing I have.
Still, the Uniwill serves me well. I have Gentoo
installed with the Centrino kernel stuff, which
automatically adjusts the CPU speed fairly well. I
did notice that all distributions that I tested
(Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake, and Knoppix) all ran the
CPU at max speed and didn't seem to have the SpeedStep
stuff loaded. Made the thing a bear to install
because of the heat. But once everything is loaded,
it can truely be used as a laptop because the bottom
doesn't get hot at all.
I have a Dell Latitude from my work (C600 maybe?) and
the CPU fan is almost silent, even at high speed. But
the top of the thing gets grossly hot from the hard
drive and the bottom tends to get warmer than my
Uniwill. And it is only a 1.6GHz P-M.
Also, in regards to performance, I mostly run Windows
on it (yeah, yeah, I know) to run Project 5 and Sonar,
and it is able to handle more VST plugins than my
AthlonXP 2600+ desktop.
Andy
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