What do you think of my computer? - Page 2

it's a nice laptop but i wouldn't want to carry it around much since Pentium 4 computers, even though they are M, seem to always be bulky and have a lot of heat, though their performance is far far superious than a Pentium M laptop and atleast 64MB of VRAM is better than 32MB

It's okay. I wouldn't use it. Not only because I hate Dell, but because it doesn't have anything I need in it.

The Pentium M is a lot faster than the Pentium 4. Unfortunately, what you've got is a Pentium 4-M, which is a Pentium 4 with SpeedStep, a completely different architecture than the Pentium M.

A Pentium M would save you more power/heat/battery life compared to the equivalent performing P4.

precisely. and agian, i apologize if i seemed mocking before, but it would've been helpful had u posted the full details=/

anyhow, yeah, P4 was not designed to be a mobile proc, its a desktop edition they just changed a lill. Its not battery efficient is all. but, if u can pump 3 hours out of it, its still good.

Also, a Pentium M is much faster at a given clock speed than a Pentium 4, e.g. a P-M 1.86 GHz is equivalent in speed to a P-4 3.2 GHz. So all around, a Pentium M is much better.

It also costs more, so if you don't feel there's a need to upgrade, there's no need to.

Wow thats awesomew i wish i could afford something like that XD

I had a 4150 for about 3 years, great machine bought in 2002. If you can get 3 hours out of it that's awesome! I had to pray to get mine to last that long.

heres my chance! I know everyone has kissed and made up... but it's my favorite link and use it wherever it is applicable

That guy looks like a mixture between John Leguizamo and Keanu Reeves.

Im dum ill admit it
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i would comit suicide if i bought that

You stated how much you paid for it, but when did you buy it? It is an older model notebook. I had a similar system about 4 years ago. There is nothing wrong with it, unless it doesn't do something you want it to do.
But this is what people are probably trying to say... in their own ways:

The newer PM/Core Duo notebooks offer more battery life and are far more powerful than the chip you have currently in your system.
The newer gpus and even the new integrated intel graphics are more powerful
and more energy saving than that notebooks current setup.
These type of systems today can be as low as $1000 to $1200 depending on what you are looking for : ie, dell models, acer 5672 etc .
Also most notebooks nowdays have atleast 80G hard drives if not 100-120Gb.
Most also always come with an 8xdual layer dvd burner.
Also, depending on the resolution of your screen, those have changed a lot in past few years as well. Most in the range come with 1280x800-ish resolutions depending.

Again, it isn't a bad computer for its time. If I am not mistaken that was released right before the PM's really took off, so the P4 was certainly better than a celeron-M or P3-M.

Again, i will say if you bought it recently for $1000, that wasn't a good choice. But if it was a while back then yeah, great!

--k1tty