How efficient are new chips?

[paulsheff]

I need a new laptop, a mate of mine just bought one, nice wide screen, AMD chip, but his battery time is appalling. I really fancy a duo core one (that HP one on the purple store ad looked great :$) but tbh don't want to have to drag the power pack round the house with me all the time when surfing the net. What sort of usage can you get from them on one charge?

No gaming, coding, PS and net only really.

 

[lucifersam]

I need a new laptop, a mate of mine just bought one, nice wide screen, AMD chip, but his battery time is appalling. I really fancy a duo core one (that HP one on the purple store ad looked great :$) but tbh don't want to have to drag the power pack round the house with me all the time when surfing the net. What sort of usage can you get from them on one charge?

No gaming, coding, PS and net only really.

is it possibile to wait until september for Merom core? if not then get one with Core Duo, my mate has a Dell with this CPU and the abttery last for about 6 hours if he is just surfing the web

 

[TheVoice]

I get pretty decent battery life from my Dell 630m. As long as you use the proper power saving modes (to reduce CPU speed when idle), you should be OK. Reducing display brightness, turning off network adapters/wi-fi when not being used all helps too.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I second the vote for Merom. Think of it as a more efficient, higher performance version of the Core Duo.