laptop suggestions?

[matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org]

hey folks,

somehting's just killed the second hard drive in a row on my dell  
latitude d820 -- i suspect either the constant overheating or a bug  
with hard drive controllers in ubuntu 8.04/8.10 -- and i'm htinking it  
might be worht just buying a new laptop instead of going through the  
same drive nightmare another time.  has anyone bought a reasonably  
proced, dual-core laptop with a half-decent battery life lately?  I  
guess my preference would be for an asus or something without windows,  
but if i have to pay the windows tax i will.  anyway:  any  
suggestions?  i'm headed down to the states next week and thought i  
might pick up something cheap.  thanks!

matt

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