Difference made by RPMs?

[Licensed Devil]

Just a quick one, looking at buying a fairly high performance laptop at the moment (T7300, 2gb RAM, GeForce 8600M) but the hdds it comes with is 2x200gb SATA 4200rpm.

Is the lower rpm (other model has 5200rpm but 2x160GB, and T7100) going to make a big difference?

Thanks

 

[Licensed Devil]

Ok some interesting points there. However just to add to the mix, due to various suppliers holding certain models and various more expensive suppliers holding lesser models for the same price i can either get exact same spec but with

T7100 & 2x160GB 5200rpm
T7300 & 2x200GB 4200rpm

for the same price lol.

Now I'm guessing the second is the better option, if it's atrocious i can just replace one or both of the hdd's I would think.

Anyone disagree?

 

[Licensed Devil]

Yeah but there's also the difference between a 2GHz and 2.2GHz processor to consider...