Much appreciated your valuable contribution guys.
Sony Vaio, IBM, and Dell seems to be the popular choice. That Acer Ferrari 3000 laptop was impressive too. Personally, I certainly wouldn't mind getting that but I just came to know that the company has chosen to go with Dell laptops. So mine will be most probably a
Dell Latitude D600.
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_d600?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~tab=highlighttab#tabtop
It has the Pentium M Processor with 1MB L2 Cache at 1.6 GHz with Centrino Mobile technology.
In their performance benchmarks, IntelŪ PentiumŪ M Processor 1.70 GHz could beat the Mobile IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 Processor ? M 2.60 GHz, so I am quite impressed.
Cheers,
McoreD