laptop recommendations, Phase II

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

David Kramer writes:
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| PS: Just ordered it online 20 minutes ago.
| http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/
| ProductDisplay?productId=8707186&storeId=1&langId=-1&catalogId=-840

So how long until IBM also offers it with linux  installed?
Or  dual  boot?   It could be useful to have Windows on the
disk for cases where you're dealing with someone who  won't
talk  to  you  if  you're running linux.  And if they had a
VM-like setup that allowed both to be  alive  at  the  same
time so you don't have to kill all your linux apps to bring
up XT, that would be really useful. IBM has known how to do
this sort of things for nearly 40 years now ...