X60s or better?

All, I'm considering buying a refurbished x60s and spent a lot of time scouring through the forums (which were very insightful). I'm a heavy Internet and MS Office user, and would ideally like to run the machine on Vista/7 and MS 2007/2010. Portability is extremely important to me and hence I'm only looking at 12.1" screen.

Here are the specs of the machine which I'm considering:

Model: T17023JU
Intel® Core™ Duo 1.66 GHz
2GB Memory
60 GB HDD
Price: $250 shipped

My questions:

1. What are the next in line 12.1" screen options I have? The only other ones I read about were X200 and X201 (which seem to be around $400-$500).
2. Is $250 a good deal on the laptop? It's refurbished and comes with a 3 month limited warranty
3. I read that I can upgrade the Memory to 4GB, but the machine description says max is 2GB. Which one is correct?

Thanks a lot!!

 

Well, the Core Duo processor does not have 64-bit OS support, so you won't be able to use all 4 GB of RAM anyway.

The X60s isn't a bad choice, although it is beginning to become somewhat dated. For $250, you'd be hard-pressed to snag something newer and better-equipped for that money, though: you could look at the Thinkpad X61, since it does have Core 2 Duo processors that support 64-bit OSes.

 

I would snap up that deal in a second. My wife's work computer has the same specs and it has taken beating worse than a Home Alone movie. Our kids have thrown it, it has been dropped several times by her clients and at one point I actually stepped on the damn thing. And it performs well despite the fact that her company insists on having about 20 programs running in the background. I would upgrade the hard drive and slap Win7 on it. You will not regret it.