I'm considering buying a laptop, but am having trouble deciding what is the most important feature, power or battery life.
I want to be able to play games well (though clearly not at desktop level) with the latest video car, but still be able to carry it around to class, and do work on it without being tied to a wall, there seems to be very little middle ground.
I'll take the Alienware models (great quality) as an example.....
The high end Area 51m
High-Performance Laptop Chassis (Standard)
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 2.8GHz 533MHz FSB w/ 512KB Cache
Hi-Performance Heatsink/CPU Cooling Fan
Intel® 845E+ICH3M Chipset - FC-PGA DDR
512MB DDR PC-2100 - Two SO-DIMMs
40GB 5400 RPM ATA100
15" UltraXGA 1600x1200 LCD Display
ATI Mobility RADEON 9000 64MB DDR
Sound-Blaster Pro Compatible 3D Audio
And the lower end Hive mindm
High-Performance Laptop Chassis (Standard)
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor - M 2.0GHz 400MHz FSB
Hi-Performance Heatsink/CPU Cooling Fan
Intel® 845MP+ICH3M Chipset - mFC-PGA DDR
Standard 1.44MB Floppy Drive
256MB DDR PC-2100 - One SO-DIMM
20GB 5400 RPM ATA100
15" UltraXGA 1600x1200 LCD Display
ATI Mobility RADEON 7500 64MB DDR
Sound-Blaster Pro Compatible 3D Audio
3.5 3-Mode Floppy Disk Drive
The P4m Cpus are much better at conserving battery life when not plugged in, and are nearly as fast as the regular P4's, but I never see the faster Radeon 9000 gpu bundled with the P4m. Am I not looking in the right place or am I going to be stuck going one way or the other.
Which way would you go, knowing that either gaming performance or battery life would suffer, given that an outlet would always be around when gaming?
I want to be able to play games well (though clearly not at desktop level) with the latest video car, but still be able to carry it around to class, and do work on it without being tied to a wall, there seems to be very little middle ground.
I'll take the Alienware models (great quality) as an example.....
The high end Area 51m
High-Performance Laptop Chassis (Standard)
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 2.8GHz 533MHz FSB w/ 512KB Cache
Hi-Performance Heatsink/CPU Cooling Fan
Intel® 845E+ICH3M Chipset - FC-PGA DDR
512MB DDR PC-2100 - Two SO-DIMMs
40GB 5400 RPM ATA100
15" UltraXGA 1600x1200 LCD Display
ATI Mobility RADEON 9000 64MB DDR
Sound-Blaster Pro Compatible 3D Audio
And the lower end Hive mindm
High-Performance Laptop Chassis (Standard)
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor - M 2.0GHz 400MHz FSB
Hi-Performance Heatsink/CPU Cooling Fan
Intel® 845MP+ICH3M Chipset - mFC-PGA DDR
Standard 1.44MB Floppy Drive
256MB DDR PC-2100 - One SO-DIMM
20GB 5400 RPM ATA100
15" UltraXGA 1600x1200 LCD Display
ATI Mobility RADEON 7500 64MB DDR
Sound-Blaster Pro Compatible 3D Audio
3.5 3-Mode Floppy Disk Drive
The P4m Cpus are much better at conserving battery life when not plugged in, and are nearly as fast as the regular P4's, but I never see the faster Radeon 9000 gpu bundled with the P4m. Am I not looking in the right place or am I going to be stuck going one way or the other.
Which way would you go, knowing that either gaming performance or battery life would suffer, given that an outlet would always be around when gaming?
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