Laptop for tracking, suggestions?

[RevoltStudios]

I'm starting to realize how much out of room recording I'm doing and will be looking at laptops. Firewire on a cheaper laptop seems to be rare so I'm gonna ask for help! I need one that has firewire or a cardslot for adding it. At LEAST dual core 2ghz, or minimum specs for Nuendo 3/4. I don't need to do any mixing or fancy stuff. I just need for instance, a way to record drums with my interface then dump the project files to my studio computer for everything else. So...ideas? Thanks in advance! Also, looking for the cheapest possible!

[TsunboRecords]

How many tracks to you plan to record at once?

To give you an idea, I'm only doing 1 track via a Rode Podcaster on a Lenovo S10 Netbook (Atom 1.6ghx/2GB/160GB HHD). I'm able to definitely record at 24/96 with around 50-60% CPU usage through Audacity. All in XP with A/V et al resident softwares running in the background.

So depending how many tracks you need to do at once, you may have to pony up big dollars for basically a portable workstation lol

[ton]

you could check out the thinkpad r400. it's not that expensive and has both pcmcia and expresscard.

[Dysanfel]

I would suggest keeping an eye on the Mac refurb store. If you want to make music and not take chances you really don't have any other choice.

[RevoltStudios]

10 tracks probably. Checking out suggestions!