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My old laptop is delivered with an external battery (or as the labeling says: UPS), that weighs about the same as a notebook computer. The laptop itself is 1.5″ thick, has a bit white edge around the 14″ display, which is XGA. I find 1204x768px claustrophobic. The charger, the battery and the laptop has bad contact in the plugins for power. The PSU makes elzapp when I move it. To make this short: I really want a new laptop.

So, I checked if my favorite Laptop vendor (ECS) has something interresting. And they has ……..

At multicom, that is Norways only reseller for ECS Laptops I found this offer: ECS Green 551: 9 895 NOK, which is about 1450 USD.

Seems like they’re out of stock on this one. I think I” go for this one, then…

Specs:

• 15″ TFT monitor, 1400×1050px resolution (SXGA)
• Intel Pentium-M Celeron 1500 processor
  ….. yes I know… Celeron is a bad thing… Other sites say that it is a Centrino…. I hope they’re right
• 256MB DDR PC2700 (333MHz) Kingston memory. There is a free bay for later upgrade.
• 40GB
  ….I’ll replace this with my 80GB drive
• DVD±RWburner. 12x DVD read, 24x CDROM read, 16x CDR write, 8x CDRW write, 4x DVD-R write, 2x DVD-RW write, 2.4x DVD+R write, 2.4x DVD+RW write. Has Burnfree technology
• 64MB DDR ATI Mobility M9 Radeon 9000 graphics card, 4X AGP
• 5.1 soundcard, and stereo speakers
• Wireless network card (802.11b)
• 56k softmodem
• 10/100Mbit NIC
• 2x USB 2.0 ports 1.5Mbps/12Mbps/480Mbps
  …..its gonna be hard going from 4 to 2 USB2 ports
• FireWire IEEE1394 port
• 1x Type II PCMCIA
• IrDA 1.3 (4.0Mbps) IR port
• Synaptics touchpad
• Parallell port
• Audio-out / 5.1 port (SPDIF)
• S-video TV-out
• Aluminium cover
• Internal li-ion battery
• Operation time: about 4 hours
  …. We’ll see to that…. I bet about 2:50 hours
• Charging time: 3 hours
• Delivered without Operating System
• Size: 326 x 258 x 25 mm
• Weight: 2,6kg

All features tested with linux, and all (but the modem ofcourse) works!