Recommend a notebook and PDA please

[pokerjo22]

Assuming that money is no object, can you guys recommend me a notebook and a PDA? Here are the things I'm looking for:

Portability - it has to be small and light.

Screen - Preferably 1280 x whatever the other number is resolution or above. Oh and bright.

Memory - 1 GB RAM minimum. And something not too shabby on the processor.

Oh and it needs to be a touchpad, not that pointy thing (I've never been able to get the hang of it).

I'm thinking of a Sony Vaio? I want something I can work on unobtrusively on either the BART or in a boring meeting, and so I find most notebooks too big. Plus the VAIO looks pretty. But if anyone has any other suggestions I'd be interested to hear them.

As for PDA I have no idea where to start. I'm not even sure I need one, but my boss recommended it. I guess keeping track of meetings is pretty important, and I may switch to doing my email from it, I'm just worried I won't be able to type properly or use that little pencil thing.

Any advice?