I’ve owned a laptop (or usually a few laptops) every single moment since 1995 when I got a ThinkPad 750.  Some of them I liked more than others.

But the Thinkpad T400 that I got this Fall is, by far, my favorite laptop of all time.  First, it it just really fast. It has an Intel T9600 CPU which is very fast. It’s almost as fast as my Dell XPS 710 mega machine at the office. Second, it is loaded with highly useful features like:

1. 3G Internet access so that it’s always able to get on the Internet. I cannot understate how big of a deal having this integrated is versus carrying around a 3G card.
2. It has an SD Card reader in it which makes it very handy dealing with media.
3. It can read and burn CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray.
4. It’s quite light. About 4 pounds.
5. It gets great battery life.
6. It has 8GB of memory which, combined with 64-bit Vista makes it super snappy. Before getting an SSD drive, consider going to 64-bit and loading it up with RAM. Disk caching > SSD.