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?

[astroglide]

thinkpads are the best pc laptops bar none. a t42 with 1440x1050 resolution will fit the bill. very thin/light as well, peerless build quality.

pda i would suggest looking at a treo and get your work to pay for it. most people that get pdas who aren't hardcore outlook junkies stop using them after so many months. you can get unlimited data plans from sprint pcs and use it for email/etc as well.

[sfer]

If you're going to live in the Bay Area you're going to have to say BART without the article in front. Mmmmm-kay?

[ScottyP431]

www.alienware.com , you want the sentia

vaios are like the beach, they are for fa...

[pokerjo22]

That's going to be hard since I've spent my entire life catching 'The T'.

[Boris]

History will remember PDAs as just another piece of dot-com kitsch. I'd go with the Blackberry. It's the best for email.

[Ulysses]

Check out the Sony S270 and Dell 700m for the laptops. I bought those two recently and they both fit the bill. They were the best I found in terms of price/performance when looking for light laptops.

Both Dell and Sony have all sorts of deals going on all the time that will save you a few hundred bucks off list. You can find out about them sometimes on the Internet forum here and at deal sites like fatwallet.com or slickdeals.net. notebookforums.com was also a very helpful site for me in finding the best laptop at the best price.

[partygirluk]

You can get keyboards for PDAs. I got one for £50 from ebay, and it folds to cigarette pack size.

[pokerjo22]

Hmm, it looks very nice, although I'm not sure a pair of glowing alien eyes is really 'unobtrusive'.

[sfer]

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That's going to be hard since I've spent my entire life catching 'The T'.

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If I can go from saying MUNI and BART sans "the" to referring to the 6 and the NR I have no doubt that you'll make it. I have faith in you.