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I believe that you can get an international warranty on HP's business notebooks such as the nc6000 and nc8000 and on IBM's ThinkPads.

You seem to trying to have some kind of flame war with me, but I'm not willing to flame back. Prior to the release of the M505 and M675 laptops, Gateway bought all of their laptops from Quanta. Gateway continues to buy their older models from them. I also am not a fan of these older model...

Wistron makes the X- series ThinkPads now, they have not always done so. I agree that they do not make the T- series of ThinkPads and never have (to the best of my knowledge). The other ThinkPads that Wistron makes are some of the R- series. If you get a ThinkPad that was made in the...

If you recall, I did a lot of research on your behalf in this thread, trying to determine if Arima is the manufacturer of the Emachines 6805. My conclusion was that Arima is probably not the ODM. For your sake, I hope that Arima did not manufacture your laptop. Arima has probably the worst...

I agree that IBM ThinkPads are the best choice for durability and reliability if money is no object. Coincidently, who do you think makes the X- series of ThinkPads for IBM? If you guessed Wistron, who also makes the Gateway M505, then you guessed right.

Nice screen - even Battery life - Gateway M505 Good tech support - Gateway (see Consumer Reports ratings) Good build quality - Gateway M505 (made by Wistron who is the biggest subcontractor making ThinkPads for IBM) Quiet - Gateway M505 (uses mobile instead of desktop CPU which draws less...

I am not the source of any of the benchmarks. I provide links to all of my sources in the AnandTech posting.

I have never said that the Gateway M505 is the "be-all-end-all" laptop, only that it is a good value with some clear advantages over the Emachines 6805. These advantages include: - Lighter weight (6.7 lbs vs. 7.5 lbs) - Longer battery life (4.5 hrs vs. 2.5 hrs) - Quieter operation (M505...

Quite untrue, I'm afraid. Here's a performance comparison of the two laptops in stock form (without overclocking): 1.4GHz Pentium M Gateway M505X with 512MB RAM: 3Dmark 2001: 9305 3Dmark 2003: 2437 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Emachines 6805 with 512MB RAM: 3Dmark 2001: 9112 3Dmark 2003: 2443...

The fan on the Gateway M505X does not come on at all during normal use, even while resting on your lap. The hard drive is virtually inaudible and the keyboard is very quiet as well.

I recommend the Gateway M505X. It can be purchased from Gateway for $1499 less a 10% AAA discount = $1349 or from Office Depot this week for $1599 - $200 mail in rebate = $1399.

The Voodoo PC m460 is an overpriced ECS G556 with a fancy paint job. For more information about the ECS G556, see here

Try here.

How about Eurocom? Eurocom laptops are made by the same company that makes Sager laptops (Clevo).

How about this? Just be sure to upgrade it to at least 256MB of RAM.