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301204 2004-12-09 22:54:00 I would personally avoid that one. Dick Smith has a very good deal here (www.dse.co.nz) at the moment. For $1299, you can't go wrong with the reputation of Acer backed by a one year international travellers warranty. Suprisingly, its only 2.75kgs and 15"!!!

ACER 2302LC Notebook XC3486
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
301205 2004-12-10 00:05:00 ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~, thanks for that, had looked at that one, but the Dell is @2.4mhz, which seems rather high for the price.

Les 3.
leshibbard (873)
301206 2004-12-10 00:07:00 The one SY linked to uses a mobile CPU,the other uses a desktop cpu.

The Mhz doesn't represent performance.
metla (154)
301207 2004-12-10 00:11:00 that acer will prob eat the dell for desert , mobile chips are also much cooler then reguars noone (22)
301208 2004-12-10 00:11:00 > ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~, thanks for that, had looked at that
> one, but the Dell is @2.4ghz, which seems rather high
> for the price.
>
> Les 3.

It isn't! It's rather low in fact! The Acer's processor is a Pentium Celeron Mobile Being a mobile processor, it increases the battery life, which is always the biggie of buying laptop (smaller voltage), whilst the CPU's architecture maintains its speed. I would roughly guess the 1.4Ghz Mobile to be equal to Celeron -normal- 2.6Ghz~

Someone should be able to give a better comparision...
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
301209 2004-12-10 00:14:00 > that acer will prob eat the dell for desert , mobile
> chips are also much cooler then reguars

Good cooling is very important in laptop computers, as for all we know, overheating is not good for anything!
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
301210 2004-12-10 00:15:00 but what would that laptop be equal to? a 2.8Ghz?
darn annoying how they have these sort of things now, i always thought the higher the Ghz the faster it is........ but it seems my theory is wrong :)
Prescott (11)
301211 2004-12-10 00:16:00 Thanks Metla, oh well, I had better sell some stocks & bands then.

As mentioned earlier, the b-in-law makes the damn things, but he's such a b..head, with his BA's, JPp's and things and I don't want to start him off.

Les 3.

Ps. I think he put together the Dell brand in Aussie, shoosh, he is back in NZ after 35 years away.

les 3
leshibbard (873)
301212 2004-12-10 00:28:00 Depends on what your doing with the cpu,Performance between a lower ghz M cpu and a desktop cpu will be similar when doing casual tasks,But start doing some encoding or other demanding tasks and they fall on their ass,But then most notebooks aren't designed or purchased for those sort of tasks.

All depends on the use,I've used Laptops with Pentium M cpu's and found them so frustrating i would never buy one....
metla (154)
301213 2004-12-10 00:31:00 if you have $3000 you can get that laptop that will satisfy any desktop power hunter

3.2ghz , p4
1024ram
dvdrw
big hdd
great graphics ( 9600 - 9800 )
all the rest
noone (22)
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