DELL Latitude D830 or Lenovo T61 for a Developer?

[legolas_w]

I am in process of selecting a laptop as my mainstream development station.
I will be mobile for some month and I need to have a brand new and capable laptop.
So far, I found following offers to be suitable
DELL Latitude D830 and Lenovo T61. common features are as follow but lenovo will have 14.1" screen and dell will has 15.4'' Widescreen WSXGA+.


Intel Core2 Duo 2.5 GHZ
CASH 6 mb
RAM 2 GB DDRII
H.D.D 160++
DVD+/-RW
NVidia NVS140 (256 dedicated mem)


Which one is better to choose, I will use the laptop for developing J2EE applications, It should be able to run and IDE, a Database, A database management tools.

What do you suggest? do you think some other brands or model can be better?

[Lostincyberspace]

Get both, try them out, and send the one you don't like to me.

[maniacmusician]

For a developer? Intel Graphics would be better. A smaller hard drive with 320-500GB external.

It also depends on what you like; I wanted a smaller laptop, so I have a 14.1" screen. Some people like bigger screens, but portability is more valuable to me.

[cardinals_fan]

The Lenovo.

[%hMa@?b<C]

_personally_ I would go with the Thinkpad, but both are quality machines and should last you and serve any purpose. I would base my decision on screen size/battery life if you are still undecided

[intense.ego]

You can't match the build quality of a thinkpad.