my stipend finally came in today, so i could buy a new laptop at last! i ordered a thinkpad t43, my first t series notebook, and i'm quite excited about it. with all things being equal i would still have liked an x-series of course - i've never had anything as hea, but the t43 looks like a very smart choice for me at this point, and with the harvard discounts i saved just over $700. it'll be delivered by monday; i hope so anyway. can't wait to set the thing up, though i wonder which two fingers to use for the fingerprint identifier. one from each hand so that if you lose a hand you can still turn your computer on? choonping tells me he can never get into his own staffroom since they installed fingerprint readers. and i always have trouble with the fingerprint scan at immigration. i hope this isn't going to be a nuisance.