low power consumption laptop?

[groovin]

i hear the Pentium M centrinos are really efficient.... any suggestions?

also, any comments on the toshiba satellites?

thanks

 

[BargainSeeker]

Originally posted by: groovin
i hear the Pentium M centrinos are really efficient.... any suggestions?

also, any comments on the toshiba satellites?

Pentium M laptops are efficient. Battery run times of 4 1/2 hours or more are not uncommon. My comments on the Toshiba Satellites would be good build quality, good displays and weak graphics performance.

Before I can make suggestions, it would help to know if you plan on using the laptop to play computer games or do other graphics-intensive tasks, what is your budget and how small and light you want the laptop to be.

 

[Abhi]

Go for a Pentium M.

Btw, my pentium 4 M is also giving me 3.5 hrs of battery time under use ... (with a 15.4 inch widescreen).

 

[groovin]

i will be loading linux onto the lappy so anything that has standard hardware is good...

as for the portability... a 14" screen is good, maybe 4-5 lbs? Ive seen the Dell lattitude D500's... those are the perfect size... the satellites are a good size too.

No games, just a solid laptop that will consume less power and not burn my lap after using it for a few hours... oh and is sturdy enough to handle being moved alot.

thanks

 

[BargainSeeker]

Have you looked at the IBM ThinkPad line? They have some laptops that would be a very good match to your requirements.

 

[Wuzup101]

My roomate has a dell latitude 500 series and it's quite nice. Build quality is very good IMHO... it feels really nice. It doesn't have the "IBM" or "Sony" name behind it; however, I think you would find it to suit our needs. BTW the latitude 600 series is also very nice and equally as light!

 

[jschuk]

Avoid any of the Toshiba's that run on 19V power. You will find that the 15V Toshiba's have very good build quality. Same goes for IBM, make sure it runs on 16V, not 19V.

 

[groovin]

great advice guys, thanks!

 

[jschuk]

Also thought I would mention that I did a battery rundown test on a Toshiba R100 with the 2nd battery connected using batterymark 4.01 and I had the laptop set to normal mode (mid level screen brightness, I think the CPU will slow down to prevent fan from coming on). Anyway the laptop lasted a little over 7.5 hours. This is with the screen on the whole time and I want to say the wireless was turned on too, but I don't remember checking it (usually on by default).