HP Compaq 2510p

Pros: Battery life, keyboard, touchpad, weight, fingerprint

Cons: SCREEN!, sensor buttons, Vista

Summary: 1. AWFUL screen. LED-backlighted, meaning it will invert dark colors at any angle below the center, and will give no contrast for photos or movies. Only office work. Really. To have it evenly lighted you should look from above - then there is zero contrast - and if you want contrast and tilt the screen back, all upper half of it will be inverted.
2. GREAT battery life. Standard 6-cell battery gives me 5:55 minutes more after watching a half-hour movie with earphones and half-hour office work. Additional 9-cell battery will provide you with another whole day.
3. Good keyboard, almost Thinkpad feeling.
4. Disgusting sensor buttons - trying to hit F-keys, avoid even slight touches above them, or you will turn off your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antenna, bring up a presentation, etc. And F-keys are REALLY small.
5. CON: PgUp/PgDn are somewhere where you will never reach them, so you will have to use Fn-kursor arrows (two hands) or remap touchstick buttons to PgUp/PgDn or to scrolling (what I did, because I use touchpad mainly).
6. No volume wheel - only a sensor panel. Sleek looking, but we'd like to use it, not to look at it - and here's where the problems start.
7. Finally, Vista. Our local market is provided with only one model of 2510p, and that is with Vista. Lucky, MS give a downgrade option with Vista license, so you only have to find a distributive of XP Pro and you are settled - HDD is PATA, so XP installs without any problems. Still, HP does not provide any recovery disks - you have to install Vista first, create recovery disks yourself (2 DVDs), then install XP from your own distributive and say goodbye to the hidden recovery partitions (which is a good thing, since it gives you another 10Gb of space).