There are plenty out there that will outperform the Latitude D600 as far as speed

graphics and storage size. But if you want good reliable performance on basic stuff, documents, spreadsheets,etc or watching a DVD or surfing the web on wireless G at a very reasonable price, then this is a great very durable laptop. 

I took mine on a 14,000 mile camping trip from Virginia to Deadhorse, Alaska and back. I charged the batteries using an inverter in the car. Every night I transferred my digital pictures to the hard drive and I wrote my blog in a word processing document. Then every few days I would upload to a blog when I could find wi-fi. The little Dell survived drops, cold, damp and even some heat back in the lower 48. 

With Windows XP SP3 it connects flawlessly available networks and it talks to my other Vista and Windows 7 PCs without fail - much better than the newer OS computers do. I would however, recommend upgrading the memory to at least 1 GB. If you already have a 512 MB chip, a second will cost you about another $20.00 on E-Bay. Also, even at 5 years old (per the service tag) I still get about 90 minutes or so out of the battery. 

Again, this is a great starter or spare. I like mine so well that I bought a second one for my 84 year old mother. 

This is an incredible product. I am glad I decided to purchased this over a GPS unit

Love this thing. Most of the courses I play have some yardage markers but when you stray from the fairway like I do, then this rangefinder is priceless. 

I have no problem with any shot from any place on the course. I can range bunkers, flags anything I want and easily. 

I ranged all my clubs from driver to gap wedge. Now I know exactly how far each club should go, if I hit it well. 

This is the best thing that I've added to my bag, period. 

Would definitely recommend this to anyone.

Will iPhone 3G usher in geoweb era?

Location, geospatial data, looks set to drive the next phase of the web. What’s been the hold-up so far will be one of the topics at the Focus on Locus symposium Friday at Columbia University.

The conference coincides with the market debut of the GPS-enabled iPhone 3G.

‘Somewhere across the next 1 or 2 years, people may well experience something akin to seeing their first web browser, getting their first mobile phone, or joining their first social network,’ organizer Chris Lo predicts.

‘It is location that will faciliatate the construction, and on-demand easy delivery, of a vast aggregate multimedia and service space consisting of the accumulated experiences and opinion of every user who has ever been to a location before.’

Speakers at Focus on Locus include Eli Noam (Columbia/CITI), Andrew Weinrich (MeetMoi), David Gill (Nielsen Mobile), Ben Ezrick (Ogilvy Interactive), Dan Melinger (Socialight) and Danny Moon (UpNext).