Advice for Thinkpad purchase R60

[fan-of-dilbert]

All of the stuff I have read keeps me reconsidering a Thinkpad for purhase due to the reviews about the keyboard, dependibility.....

I'm looking at the R60 and want to keep it around a grand and will be getting XP Pro. R60e not an option as it appears express card not on that config.

All things being equal would it be better to get.

1. R60 with the slowest Core 2 Duo upgrade Ram later
2. 3000 N series and get a faster Core 2 Duo (I read one review the cases scratch easily).
3. R60 but go with the Celeron M and get more features (ram) guessing that it would kick the crap out of my AMD XP-M 2800 on my Compaq.

Primary use:
1. Sripting (sometimes having a few programs running at once).
2. DB stuff, messing around currently with SQL Express and Crystal Reports.

Any help greatly appreciated. Great site!!

Doug

[ZaZ]

I like option one the best. Memory is much more easy to upgrade than the CPU. That's what I did anyway.

[allan]

Option 1 is closest to what I did too, not quite the fastest processor but upped the RAM (just did that 5 minutes ago).
I was really happy with it even before - kind of like the Land-Rover - gives you a little warm feeling every time you start it up and get to work