IBM Notebook With Centrino, Anyone have one?
 

Anyone have a note book with Centrino? Whats the diff.? I called IBM concerning their ThinkPads and they told me "even though its only a 1.3mhz, Centrino tech. makes it faster". Im not sure I want to spend $2200+(Canadian) for a 1.3.

I looking for a bullitproof notebook. I already have a Toshiba with a P4 1.6 with 512M and I want to throw the fucker out the window, it sucks!

Anybody have any recomendations?

thx,
Ray

I have a new Gateway laptop with Centrino and it is great!

I get 3+ hours of battery life out of a 50 minute charge, and speed is no problem. I have the same thing, 1.3 ghz chip but they say it's equivalent to 2.0 ghz, and I can't argue.

Go for it!

-P

Hmm..equivalent to 2.0 ghz. Do you do any video editing, converting from wmv to mpeg or vice versa?

One of the problem with my Toshiba is it takes 11-12 sec to convert a 10second wmv to mpeg. When I use my desktop(i know you cant really compare to notebook) it takes 3-4 seconds for the same job.

Nah, I don't do much video editiing/encoding, but my laptop does a bang-up job rendering giant 3d scenes.

*shrug*

is there a program that tests the actual speed your processor is running at?

Would be interesting.

-P

You should get the THINKPAD R40

with Centrino 1400, 15.1" TFT 1400x1050 and 6.1 hrs battery


- longest battery life of all notebooks (only one toshiba model lasts a bit longer)

- super silent it makes basically NO noise at all

- very solid built & IBM is supposed to have superb service for their notebooks (didn't use it yet)

forgot to mention it has all the wireless lan stuff already built in, incl a double antenna built into the tft.

The R40 is the model im looking at.

Do you run it all day without it getting too hot? How about video editing, do u do any?

thx,
Ray

I work about 10 hrs a day on it and its on 24/7. At night I just close it and it goes into standby.

Video editing I didn't do anything yet. But performs well overall. Your bottleneck might be the IDE drive and a small 2.5" one too, which are usually slower than the big versions for desktops. And it's 5400 rpm I think. But still, I think it can do the occasional dvd rip and mpeg encoding etc quite well. But for full-time video processing a desktop may be preferable


I have 512 MB, upgraded from 256 right when I bought it




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as for heat, it doesn't get hot at ALL. I have it running for like 5 days or so now and it barely gets a bit warm now and then, if at all

Definitely still get a centrino if not the R40, no noise no heat long battery times