GuruJockStrap said:
What are you using the laptop for?
I've got a Dell Inspiron 630m with a Pentium M 1.73GHz.
I only use the laptop for browsing, email, office, doing uni work, music and the odd DVD.
It does all those things with utter ease and quickly. Hell, it feels faster than my P4 3.2GHz HT Shuttle system!
If the laptop had a dual core CPU I can't imagine it feeling faster than what it is now, especially for what I use the laptop for. Sure, benching a single against a dual core system would show the differences but I doubt I'd feel the difference.
So for me, if it was a choice between a single core and dual core model but the dual core was considerably more, I'd go for the single more model.
I hear you guru, most of the time I download, browse, print and store photos, however I do have a lot open at once, and then when I kick in Visual Studio 2005 u can start to feel the strain abit.
I dont game on my notebook as its an 855 based p-m.
the truth is I usually only play bf2 with conviction, but the dilema I have now is if im gonna spend 1000 on a notebook, I would like it to be either a lovelly lickle 12.1 or a 14 -13 capable of doing more then what I have now.
The real issue with these notebooks with dedicated gfx for me is many dont give you the option to boot up using the onboard chipset gfx saving the battery from nvidias or ati's claws.
Im swamped with options
Samsung Q35 "lovelly, light 12.1 with as much hd and ram as i have now and ready for vista"
Samsung x11 "nice looking 14 with 7400, you can buy a bigger battery for 150
Danish Company "has a 500mb 7600 onboard and is a 14, really bad battery life and for some reason the panel is like that of generations gone by, poor brightness and viewing angle"
nova 13 " cheap and nasty looking 13, but u get a T2500, 2gb ram and a 100gb sata + 3.5 battery life for a grand
sony sz1m/b its a sony
damn these choices
