UHh, seriously a p3? The core 2 duo has an ultra low voltage version, 2 actually and adding a larger hard drive wont decrease battery performace or weight, and going with 5400 rpm would be negligable difference in terms of battery usage
I just ordered a Dell Inspiron 6400, spend $1220 canadian and got a Radeon x1400 core 2 duo 2.GHz 120GB and 1GB RAM..on a 1.4 inch with bat time of 5 hours top
The centrinos are all interfaces with the chipset because they are for intel chips only I have a feeling that is why centrino systems run better and why AMD with its new partner ATI is trying to develop their own similar chipset.
If your planning on learning a new OS have you thought of linux?
Its free and more like windows than OSX, depending on the version u run.
www.ubuntu.com <-- great version IMO
The reason DX10 is not compatible with win XP and doesnt support older versions of DX is because, by doing this, there is less overhead generated by the program running DX and therefore capable of running many times faster (as advertised...
Why are you using WinXP then? Windows 95 is extreamly stable! Or do u like USB 2.0 support, easy network, among millions of other things that were added with WinXP? My point is Vista will have much more functionality its just the next...
You can spend $800 on laptop getting integrated graphics and probably make do with 512MB of RAM and still never have a problem with any accounting software. Adittedly I dont know much about accounting software. The benefits of this is...
