Soldato
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Hi all
This christmas I hope to be getting a laptop and as much as I would like an X61 Thinkpad, I think it's a little out my budget, so I'm looking for laptops probably around the £400 or less mark.
The goal is portability, I want to use my laptop, on the sofa, on the bog, in my car, on the train, in bed, everywhere really.
So this means it needs to be as light as possible, (<2KG) and most importantly, have a decent battery life. Battery life of 4 hours of less is no good, must be more, ideally 8+ (i.e a whole day away somewhere) I don't mind buying an extra long life battery either.
So which is the most power efficient processor, is it the Intel Core2Duo? OR are AMD chips decent enough? I'm not lookin for POWAH!, just longevity.
90% of the time I will be near beefy desktop PCs, that I can remote desktop on. Mostly on the laptop will be webbrowsing, programming, media playback.
Are there any chips coming out soon that I should check out?
Does anyone know what the current longest battery powered laptop is?
I have read that the newer laptops with solid state drives have around double battery life than the same system with mech hard drives?
I have seen some good deals on the Core Duo (not 2, i.e. the 32 bit chip) are these thirsty and would I be better going for a Core2 or something different?
Any advice from anyone here would be great, thanks.
This christmas I hope to be getting a laptop and as much as I would like an X61 Thinkpad, I think it's a little out my budget, so I'm looking for laptops probably around the £400 or less mark.
The goal is portability, I want to use my laptop, on the sofa, on the bog, in my car, on the train, in bed, everywhere really.
So this means it needs to be as light as possible, (<2KG) and most importantly, have a decent battery life. Battery life of 4 hours of less is no good, must be more, ideally 8+ (i.e a whole day away somewhere) I don't mind buying an extra long life battery either.
So which is the most power efficient processor, is it the Intel Core2Duo? OR are AMD chips decent enough? I'm not lookin for POWAH!, just longevity.
90% of the time I will be near beefy desktop PCs, that I can remote desktop on. Mostly on the laptop will be webbrowsing, programming, media playback.
Are there any chips coming out soon that I should check out?
Does anyone know what the current longest battery powered laptop is?
I have read that the newer laptops with solid state drives have around double battery life than the same system with mech hard drives?
I have seen some good deals on the Core Duo (not 2, i.e. the 32 bit chip) are these thirsty and would I be better going for a Core2 or something different?
Any advice from anyone here would be great, thanks.
