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I got my T42P and compared against my frieds T60P. Here is a general comparission (In my view).

T60 definitely feels solid so is T42p and the differences you can feel is very little. For general use speed feels the same. I felt T60 screen little brighter and better colors. There are minute difference in key board feel but nothing significant. Same with touch pad redisign, difference is nothing you can't get used to in 10 minutes.

Bottom line: Both machines are excellent - Its like the difference between V6 and V8 in 5 Series BMW - V6 is sufficient but its nice to know you have V8 under the hood - and either case you get BMW build and handling. For significant premium you get bigger engine and transmission.

If you are going to buy 15" for real estate, make sure to get higher resolution otherwise the gain is not that significant at same resolution between 14 & 15". If you commute in subway buy 14" - its light and can take more abuse than heavier 15".

My Computing Trail:

I use(d) the machine for java (NetBeans IDE & ECLIPSE) /tomcat development, with mysql and oracle backend with firefox /explorer/ms word/Lemmy running in background.

2008 - TXX ??
2006 - T42P 1.8 G / 1 G / 60 G 72K HDD
2003 - T40 15 GHZ / 512 M / 40 G HDD
2000 - 600E 3XX MHz / 256 M / 20 G HDD
1997 - IBM 390E 233MHZ / 96 M / 20 G HDD
1993 - Packard Bell 10" color / 4 Meg ram / 256 M HDD

you have Netbeans AND Eclipse running at the same time? and you have an Oracle database running off your desktop? Not bad. I love the Eclipse IDE and Oracle databases. I'm not a fan of SQL Server but i'm stuck w/ doing development now in C# w/ SQL Server 2000 backend.

rpaturi wrote:Bottom line: Both machines are excellent - Its like the difference between V6 and V8 in 5 Series BMW - V6 is sufficient but its nice to know you have V8 under the hood - and either case you get BMW build and handling. For significant premium you get bigger engine and transmission.

BMW has never built a V6. Otherwise, thanks for the comparison.

BudC wrote:

rpaturi wrote:Bottom line: Both machines are excellent - Its like the difference between V6 and V8 in 5 Series BMW - V6 is sufficient but its nice to know you have V8 under the hood - and either case you get BMW build and handling. For significant premium you get bigger engine and transmission.

BMW has never built a V6. Otherwise, thanks for the comparison.

V8 you mean?

sidd wrote:

BudC wrote:BMW has never built a V6. Otherwise, thanks for the comparison.

V8 you mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BMW_engines

BMW in-line 6 engines are regularly awarded the best in the world.

I suspect the reason they don't make V6 engines is, as most engineers know, because the in-line 6 design is innately more balanced than the vee design.