Question to those who own laptops...what's considered heavy?

[jinduy]

what's considered a heavy wight for laptops?

[i changed the subject]

How would you rate the performance on a scale of 1-10? Does it choke horribly when you open 2 or 3+ applications such as microsoft word, powerpoint, cuteftp and such?

 

[T2T III]

I have a notebook with the 1.6 GHz mobile Celeron processor. The processor can handle multiple applications with ease. Remember, most applications don't need a CPU beyond 400 or 500 MHz. Memory is more essential (in most cases) than just the CPU.

 

[zephyrprime]

Hey! This isn't off topic! This is on topic! You should take this to CPU/Processors!

But seriously, even a wimpy processor could handle word, powerpoint, cuteftp and such simultaneously without breaking a sweat. Smoothly multitasking such unintensive programs depends more on having enough RAM than processor power. Try to get one with 512mb.

 

[minendo]

My toshiba laptop is running a celeron mobile 1.5 and I have absolutely no problems or slow downs with multi-tasking.

 

[NokiaDude]

2.5 pounds is heavy to me.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Heavy depends on useage and on the person. I gladly lug around 7+ pounds of ThinkPad because it's a small price for me to pay for the ThinkPad's legendary robustness, plus I use it in leu of a desktop. It's only 800MHz, but two and a half years ago when I got it, the thing was a speed demon. 800MHz and 256 MB RAM, and it handles everything I throw at it, so I think that just about any laptop today will be good. I've run 5-6 IE windows, Outlook, Word, Trillian and Winamp with Photoshop in the background and there wasn't much slowdown. If my old machine can handle that, I think you'll do fine with almost any new machine.

ZV

 

[UglyCasanova]

Wow. My 10 pound Inspiron 8200 is a monster. But I can have lots of IE windows, Photoshop, Trillian, various other programs running in the background with no slow down. Plus its great at playing RTCW and MOH when I get bored.