The company gave me a new laptop yesterday. The hp/Compaq nw8240 has a movie-aspect screen at a resolution of 1680×1050. Looking at the hardware, it seems I have a DVD-writer and built-in readers for Secure Digital and Smart Cards. No slot for a Sony ImageStick. :) The processor is a 1.73 GHz Pentium 4 mobile, and 1 gigabyte of RAM is installed.

It takes me about two days to get everything moved over to a fresh laptop or image. The boot time on this computer is less than a minute, compared with the 8 minutes on my Thinkpad A31p. I still have yet to load our proprietary software on there, so that should bring it down a notch. :) The wide screen takes some getting used to.