from [log in to unmask] This weekend I attended a committee meeting for next month's Japan Association for Language Education & Technology (LET). Of the 20 people present, seven had laptops. There were two Macs, and all the rest were Panasonic, with at least three different models represented. After the meeting I asked why and was told that they were light, very reliable and had decent battery length. In fact, during the 3-hour meeting, only one of the five had a power-adaptor plugged in. I hope this helps. Cheers, Tom -- **Join PacCALL http://www.paccall.org ** ** 3rd Annual Conference, Nov. 16-19, 2006, Nanjing, China ** ** Thomas Robb, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan ** ** <[log in to unmask]> ** ** http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/index.html ** *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************