thin and light

[AMD beginner]

I wish for a thin and light laptop.. that's under like.. 1500 dollars.
been looking at sony's tr2 (i beileve), and looks great, but kinda expensive?
alos,i'll be doin mostly work on it, but i need it to atleast be able to play counterstrike and starcraft.
hd, atleast 30 gigs plz, and ram, 512 would be great
also, goin for centrino

any options?
thx

[doctor15]

ive been looking for pretty much the same thing.

The dell 600m (or latitude d600) are the best option with a 14" screen (what I think is best for laptop ill be carrying alot) from what ive found. They have radeon9000 for graphics. If you want a 15" screen, theres a nice toshiba you may be able to find in that price range, and if you want a 15" widescreen theres a compaq.

Anyone know any other good models that would fit this?

[melee]

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_600m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

depending on options, you can get a 600m, with 14in, cetrino 1.4ghz, 64mb ati radeon 9000, 512mb ram, 30gb HD for around that price

Look at my laptop in sig. That will even play Halo 800x600 max detail. CS and starcaft are like solitare....

[PinchyCM]

Originally posted by melee
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_600m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

Look at my laptop in sig. That will even play Halo 800x600 max detail. CS and starcaft are like solitare....

YEA RIGHT. Halo runs on my machine like crap, and it's leaps and bounds above that laptop.

[Thermo]

Before you buy a P3 Centrino, you had better try one out. I spent all of last week with a 1.3MHz Dell, and they are really slow. The only good thing I could say was that it was light.

[melee]

Originally posted by PinchyCM
YEA RIGHT. Halo runs on my machine like crap, and it's leaps and bounds above that laptop.

"Pinchy's Portable(s) of Love: Dell Inspiron 4150 | P4 1.8Ghz-M | 14.1 SXGA+ Display | 512MB PC2100 DDR | 24xCDRW-8xDVD | 30GB IBM Travelstar | 32MB ATi Mobility | HP Ipaq 1945"

Only difference I see is 700mhz and 128mb in ram. You have a 32mb ATi, is it the 7500? My 9000M 64mb uses hacked 3.8 cats...
Oh and it looks great on my 15" UXGA... :D
Leaps and Bounds?

I played at a lan party with it, Ran a bunch of rounds on blood gulch won most of them, no problems.

Oh and I bet halo on normal with it. Only slowdown I get is when the plasma rifle overheats.

Sorry, cant diss my lappy, Its got some love in it.

[PinchyCM]

Originally posted by melee
"Pinchy's Portable(s) of Love: Dell Inspiron 4150 | P4 1.8Ghz-M | 14.1 SXGA+ Display | 512MB PC2100 DDR | 24xCDRW-8xDVD | 30GB IBM Travelstar | 32MB ATi Mobility | HP Ipaq 1945"

Only difference I see is 700mhz and 128mb in ram. You have a 32mb ATi, is it the 7500? My 9000M 64mb uses hacked 3.8 cats...
Oh and it looks great on my 15" UXGA... :D
Leaps and Bounds?

I played at a lan party with it, Ran a bunch of rounds on blood gulch won most of them, no problems.

Oh and I bet halo on normal with it. Only slowdown I get is when the plasma rifle overheats.

Sorry, cant diss my lappy, Its got some love in it.

not talking about the laptop buddy. talking about my desktop. that, and i know of machines at 2.8ghz+ and 9800s that still choke with that game.

[ewitte]

Originally posted by Thermo
Before you buy a P3 Centrino, you had better try one out. I spent all of last week with a 1.3MHz Dell, and they are really slow. The only good thing I could say was that it was light.

Are you sure you got the P3 Centrino? The P3 1.7Ghz Centrino with 1MB cache is supposed to be as fast as a 2.4Ghz Desktop CPU. If you have some sort of 1.3Ghz Celeron then yes it would be slow. Which model? I would go for the 8600 or 8500 if you want to save money.

Eric

[SkyDog]

*** is a "P3 Centrino"?

The "Centrino" name applies to systems with a Pentium M processor, a certain Intel chipset, and an Intel wireless NIC. The Pentium M is not a P3, and no P3 system has ever had the Centrino name applied to it.

My current work laptop has a 1.4 GHz Pentium M, and it's certainly not a slow system.

[ewitte]

Originally posted by SkyDog
*** is a "P3 Centrino"?

The "Centrino" name applies to systems with a Pentium M processor, a certain Intel chipset, and an Intel wireless NIC. The Pentium M is not a P3, and no P3 system has ever had the Centrino name applied to it.

My current work laptop has a 1.4 GHz Pentium M, and it's certainly not a slow system.

The Pentium M is based on the P3. The Pentium 4 M is based on P4 :) Looking at dells laptops the only difference I see between Pentium M and Pentium 3 M is the cache and centrino support.

Eric

[doctor15]

Originally posted by ewitte
The Pentium M is based on the P3. The Pentium 4 M is based on P4 :) Looking at dells laptops the only difference I see between Pentium M and Pentium 3 M is the cache and centrino support.

Eric

the P M is not based on the P3. Its a completly new design. It was made from all the way through specifically for laptops, instead of just modifying an existing processor for use in laptop. THe P3 version thats used in laptops is a p3 mobile. The completly new design is why the Pentium M has much better batt life, and great speed compared to other processors.

heres one link:
http://www17.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030205/index.html

[ewitte]

Originally posted by doctor15
the P M is not based on the P3. Its a completly new design. It was made from all the way through specifically for laptops, instead of just modifying an existing processor for use in laptop. THe P3 version thats used in laptops is a p3 mobile. The completly new design is why the Pentium M has much better batt life, and great speed compared to other processors.

heres one link:
http://www17.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030205/index.html

My bad. Most every review I've seen said it was. Even this one states:

"it seems that the Israel-based design team under Mooly Eden did not come up with a major new wonder technology, but with something that seems to be a cross of Pentium III and Pentium 4, plus many clever little tweaks to save power without sacrificing too much performance."

Other articles I've seen basically said that it was based on the p3.

Eric

[Terry]

That's the first I've heard of it.

But then again, I am not much into the origin of the chip.

Quite neutral on this subject now.

Keep me posted on how this discussion goes.

[melee]

Originally posted by PinchyCM
not talking about the laptop buddy. talking about my desktop. that, and i know of machines at 2.8ghz+ and 9800s that still choke with that game.

Yes it was the 9xxx (9800s or 9700) that had problems. They new 1.02 patch came out and that seemed to help. Older cards seems to work better on halo (geforce 4's specifically) apparently there was some bad coding on gearboxes part.

But it honestly does well on my lappy...