Oh Crap!!
Sorry Strongbow, I replied to this but in the confusion of an alcoholic haze, I might not have hit the "post" button. Nice to meet you and everyone else.
So, about Thinkpads.....I looked at all of others offerings of the "Santa Rosa" platform and you are right, Lenovo is the most expensive and Dell is the cheapest, but Dell's, you know, they are just so......Dell. And Asus has blinking lights and other features I don't want. Frankly, it looks like sh*t, as do all the other models I saw. But the Lenovo I saw a T60 at the local Micro Center, that was a perfect match. It took 3 security guards to drag me away from it. I'm going to get it one way or another.