Thanks for the many responses. > According to ...there's no such thing as a Pentium M at 3 GHz. Where have you heard of it? I'm still a bit confused about the alternative processors (P4 M / centrino etc), but http://www.sony.com.au/vaio/catalog/product.jsp?id=PCGK76P says it has a "Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 3.06GHz" I will check out the thinkpad as well. Thanks, Mark. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com