If you're looking for a laptop for running CAD I would suggest shopping for video, not cpu, as that will be your limiting factor. There are a couple of laptop makers out there (alienware and dell) that spec the nVidia Quadro FX Go700 and Go1000 video chipsets--these will do much, much better...
I just purchased a reByte ($150) and put it in an old PC (P3 233 MHz, 96MB Ram--reByte recommends 128 MB though). Bought two UDMA/133 250GB drives from Office Depot ($160 each) as well, and just finished setting it all up.
reByte is an IDE-based CF card with a Linux dist. on it and a very...
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