Laptop

After constant jeering (mainly from Wade) and frustration about the limitations of my current (5 year old laptop) I have taken the plung and ordered a new Thinkpad T43. It is selling at a really super deal - typically they retail for $3000 - but direct from IBM/Levono they are only $1199.
So I've just done the transfer and should have my new computer in a week or so. Unfortunately it is not the optimum configuration that I was after:
- It has a parallel port (I consider this to be a waste of space)
- It has no serial port - I use serial extensively for programming microcontrollers. No worries I got a USB to serial converter of eBay for $11
- It doesn't have firewire (I can get a converter for about $20)
- It also lacks built in Bluetooth. I do have a USB bluetooth dongle, but I noticed that on eBay you can get the IBM internal BT modules - that can wait I think.

Anyway, I'm really happy with an amazingly cheap deal.