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    Battery life with a Celeron M

    Hi all, I just picked up a cheap Celeron M notebook for my wife and was pleasantly surprised that the Celeron M is almost identical in performance to a Pentium M in everything except battery life (same chip, half the cache - 1MB, and no dynamic clock). I wasn't even aware of the...
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    Difference between x600 and 9600?

    I've got a 64mb MR9550 in my Gateway 7426gx, which is an underclocked 9600. The new version of my laptop has an x600, though is otherwise identical. I looked online for some benchmarks and found this: http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/hardware/notebooks/0,39001749,39241882-2,00.htm The site...
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    laptop hard drive problem

    Hi all, I'm having a problem with the HDD in my 7426GX. When I first got the thing, it was testing at 30MB/sec sequential, 2MB/Sec random and 12ms seek times. Now I get no more than 20MB sequential, sometimes less, about 1MB random, and 17ms seek times. [update: more like 4.5MBs/sec]...
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    GPU question

    Quick question... A friend asked about a laptop and gaming. The laptop he was asking about had a MR9700. I passed along what I hear here all the time, that for modern games you want something more powerful, like a 6800 or an x700. He asked specifically what games would give him...
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    Has anyone seen benchmarks of A64 w/1MB cache vs. Pentium Ms?

    I've looked at a lot of online benchmarks and the concensus seems to be that Pentium Ms slightly outperform A64s at the same clockspeed in gaming and some rendering applications because of their 2MB of L2 cache compared to the older A64's 512KB cache. Some of the newer A64s, however, have 1MB...
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    A64 Clockspeed Workaround

    I had some issues with my A64 notebook...on battery power, the processor would only run at 33%, no matter which power mode you had it set to. This was fine most of the time, but I wanted to be able to crank it up on battery power whenever I needed it. I looked online for solutions, but...