>Hi John,
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>Thanks for the input. I am currently considering an Acer Centrino 1.5 GHz model that has a notebook size screen and they claim a 5 hour battery life that sounds good to me. Were you satisfied with the quality of the Acer even though performance of the first generation model was not so good?

Yeah, I've had other Acer notebooks and they seemed to perform well. I've got an HP 1.7 Mobile now with built in WiFI A,B,and G, bluetooth,ir,512 meg ram, cdrw/dvd and 40 gig hd. I really like it.

John