[plug] Which brand of laptop?

[Mike Holland]

w0018749 wrote:
> I am buying a new laptop and I want to know: What brand of
> computers are the best?  

You should know that already. Thinkpad :-)
The R52 is a good computer, and should be easy to upgrade.

But maybe thats not yours? It would have had a bigger HDD originally.
See: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:R52
If you are running VMware, then 2GB is nice.
Its easy to put in a new PATA 2.5" disk.

> 2- keyboard with a number pad at the right (if possible)

Use an external USB keyboard. You can get one that just a numeric pad.

> 3- DVD player and cd burner
> 4- wireless internet

Are you missing either of those?

> 5- I also need a stress-free installation process -

You can be confident of that with Ubuntu on a thinkpad.