Need help with portable PC

[SpencerH]

You essentially have two paths. Follow the desktop replacement line i.e. I dont care if the battery lasts 2hrs I want POWER, or a pentium M with excellent power usage and reasonable speed (just dont expect to do really high end graphics stuff).

I saw some great Gateways the other day with the newer screens - well worth the money IMO.

[laurentius]

P-M runs high end graphics just as well as P4 does

[SpencerH]

Care to back that up?

[MRT144]

i want the desktop replacement with p4 3.20 ghz 2 gbs of ram, 7200 rpm HD. i would plan on using it for audio production and multimedia production...

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Care to back that up?

Dell Precision M60: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...=04&l=en&s=bsd

Pentium M 1.70 GHz and 128 MB Quadro FX Go700.


Dell Inspiron 8600: http://catalog.us.dell.com/CS1/cs1pa...300&l=en&s=bsd

Pentium M with 128MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600 PRO Turbo.

[SpencerH]

I found some myself on toms hardware comparing P4-M speeds and clearly at high resolutions its not the CPU that is the limiting factor. I guess I'm living in the past (at low resolution) where CPU speed did have effect.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Zopperoni


Dell Precision M60: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...=04&l=en&s=bsd

Pentium M 1.70 GHz and 128 MB Quadro FX Go700.


Dell Inspiron 8600: http://catalog.us.dell.com/CS1/cs1pa...300&l=en&s=bsd

Pentium M with 128MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600 PRO Turbo.

I guess you thought I meant that you couldnt buy a P4-M with a high end graphics card. No I was foolishly assuming that (for example) a 3GHz P4 desktop replacement would outperform (for example) a 1.6 GHz P4-M once the GPU limit had been reached (and that doesnt appear to be the case comparing 1.4GHz to 2.2 GHZ P4-M's with the same video cards.