Recommendations for laptop for travelling

I hesitate to ask a question I could answer though extended research,
but it's good to hear of people's practical experiences. Besides, I
know virtually nothing of laptops.

I'll soon purchase a new laptop on which I'll run debian etch in order
to access my desktop at home while travelling.

What I'd be using it for is simply to import X to run a remote emacs
session and graphical file manager, and locally to run emacs, a
browser, and a graphical file manager. The overriding concern is to
carry on such activities with the greatest reliability and ease.

What I'm looking for a laptop that is as light and has as long a
battery life as possible, that is relatively small and of good quality
(I'd like to avoid the weight and complications of a backup
battery). A CDROM drive is not mandatory, as I would install from a
usb-key. I like speed and so could use a good chunk of RAM, but I'll
not be running videos, compiling or do number crunching. Cost is not
an overriding factor.

Any recommendaations and warnings would be much appreciated.

--

Haines Brown, KB1GRM



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