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Unread 28-05-2005, 05:02
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Re: Laptops

Joe is right. The first two are going to have the glossy coating on the screen. It makes an incredible difference in image quality, and in viewing angles. Everything appears much more vividly.

Those are all going to have pretty bad battery life. I'd be surprised if you got more than 1.5-2 hours. By comparison, I have a laptop with a 2.0 ghz Dothan processor, 7200 RPM hd, and a much more power hungry graphics card, and I can get up to 5 hours with a few tricks.

The 4200 RPM hard drives are incredibly slow. Get at least a 5400 if you can.

None of your graphics cards are very good. They aren't even at the same level as many of the graphics cards before PCI-E came out. It doesn't sound like that's a big problem though.
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