Ohh... I love you DELL!

[rottwylor]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/pcworld/20040213/tc_pcworld/114783&e=5

Me thinks it's time for a new laptop =)

[Jonbo298]

It would be a good thing to get, but with such a ****ty battery life, it turns me off from even thinking about getting it. I can just find a laptop with a Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro and a good processor/hd and I'm set for gaming on the go.

[Happydude]

It would be a good thing to get, but with such a ****ty battery life, it turns me off from even thinking about getting it. I can just find a laptop with a Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro and a good processor/hd and I'm set for gaming on the go.
yeah...what he said...

[rottwylor]

Who CARES about the battery life?! My laptop stays plugged in the wall unless I'm flying somewhere... so that isn't an issue, unless you like to take your laptop on the city bus to play Halo or something...lol

[Dark Samurai]

Who CARES about the battery life?! My laptop stays plugged in the wall unless I'm flying somewhere... so that isn't an issue, unless you like to take your laptop on the city bus to play Halo or something...lol

Agreed

(O/T) Hey that was my 400th post w00t!!!

[Jonbo298]

For the price of the laptop, I could get a "frag box" and a good crt for lan parties. Battery life matters to me when I decide to get a laptop for gaming when not at home. 2-4 hours would be fine. But 1 hour just isnt sufficient.

[Ace195]

ooh I just got a good laptop. If you look at the e-machines 64 bit thats what I'm running.. Battery life isn't that great but thats why they have a plug for when your at home :)

[Jonbo298]

There's a tiny either bug or something emachines/amd did on purpose(no one is for sure yet) with the 64 bit laptop. I found out on a forum that if you don't have it plugged into the wall, the processor runs at 800 mhz. But if you plug it into the wall(power outlet), it runs at the full 1.8 ghz. The workaround I saw for it was to change the power option to always on and it'll keep running at 1.8 regardless of plugged in or not (although battery life will take a larger hit:p)

But I've been thinking about getting the 64bit emachines laptop, but I'm waiting until they roll out the 128 meg 9600 sometime shortly I read somewhere.