The Baron said:
Then again, 1280x800? Heh heh heh. So little. Soooo little. Centrino in general is one of the best things in years; being able to use my laptop for a several hours straight while hopping on the campus-wide wireless is fantastic.
The screen is a widescreen display, and although its smaller than my previous one the resolution is actually higher (the old laptop was only 1024x768) so I was fairly happy with that size. In terms of wireless, its nice not to have the card sticking out the side of the machine now, and I get a nice little switch just to turn it on and off!
Pete said:
5hrs on a 2GHz P-M with an 80GB 5400rpm HD sounds perfect.
Battery life was one of the primary purchasing decisions on this one. The one I had previously was my first laptop and my factors for purchasing were “something I can take on press trips and have DX9 graphics†– unfortunately that led me to a desktop P4 system with a FX Go5600 and the battery life on it was poor at about 1-1.5 hours. With such a short battery life it was hardly even worth the effort pulling it out of the overhead cabin on those long haul flights! With this one I have a much better idea of whats important for me in a laptop: small and fairly light, for lugging round airports and events, and a battery life: thank lord for Pentium M!
I’m not expecting to actually get close to 5hour use, though, probably 3-4 hours realistically. I tried it on battery last night and it did last for a fairly long time with reasonable activity (installing apps, a little DVD watching etc) so its looking pretty good on that front.
Pete said:
Pretty good screen size, too, though I'd probably end up going to the 120dpi font size.
I’ve not needed to change the font, and found it fine so far – then again I’m using a 15â€-16†Compaq with a 1400x1050 native res at work so I’ve been trained fairly well with small fonts.
Anyway, I tried the tutorial in City of Heroes last night and that was perfectly playable. We’ll see what RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is like next!
