1 month impression: L2000 series (old notebook) vs DV1000T series (newer notebook)

Well the official word is out in my mind.
I had the HP L2000 lance armstrong series before, and it was a great notebook. Surprised me in a few areas...how powerful under 2ghz CPU's were....how good integrated graphics could play games...and how hot and poor of battery life my machine got.
In one class every day I sat by a girl with a Dell Centrino notebook....she had the 6000 series with 15.4 inch monitor...so we all know her notebook has the bigger screen, and just as fast CPU. Another kid in class had a identicle V2000 series notebook with the exception I had 1gb of ram. He wasn't as nerdy...so he didn't undervolt his machine at all. Our machines (Turions) got 2 hours battery life at best it seemed, while I could see her come in with a full charge as well. Full brightness, wifi on, and leave with 2/3rd the battery left. In a 2 hour class. Meanwhile we had to keep ours plugged in. (I bring a surge protector with me to class). Anyways I never asked if she had 6 cell, 9 cell or 12 cell.
They ran pretty hot, but Centrino's werent a WHOLE lot cooler. But the battery life always made me jealous. On top of this, her Intel wifi card worked better then my Broadcom, and were sitting next to eachother. My wifi was utmost unstable, while hers was solidly stable with even 1mbs or 2mbs.
I could dim the screen, I could undervolt quite well. I would run it at 800mhz instead of 1600mhz. I gained a good 30-45 minutes of battery life depending on screen brightness / wifi being on or off.
Not only that but the god awful fan noise at 55 degrees celcius or higher wasn't as common. But you still heard it kick in from time to time.
Now my Core Duo...I have not honestly heard a fan on it. But classrooms at pin drop silent at my college, and I only notice it in the classroom unless I pay attention for it.

Maybe my L2000 wasn't a lucky one....but the screen had more play in the L2000/V2000 series then the dv1000t series. In the 2-3 models I did check that "play" out on. What I mean with play is the stiffness of the LCD. Basically...if your in a car how much is the LCD screen flapping back and fowarth cause of pot holes. The dv1000t did less movement.
6 cell vs 6 cell my Core Duo runs wifi and full brightness and easily beats the Turion into the ground for the amount of play I got out of the notebook on 6 cells.
The Turion tho even being older...had one advantage. The video card...the X200 integrated is obviously much better then Intel's 950.
Basically this long "rant" or 'review" or "impression" or "whatever". Is to say AMD had a great powerful notebook, and I applaud them in the market entry. They have thrown together a good notebook line-up worth buying. Usually priced cheaper then Intel (until Intel's recent aggressive pricing) you can find the Turion's for cheaper. With the downside of more heat output, and less battery life. Design flaws could be luck of the draw, or fixed in new series.
I hope AMD buying ATI will offer them a more solid notebook solution. Intel has a good card. Solid wifi / low power graphics card's bundled with decent motherboard chipsets that make use of the CPU well. AMD has to outsource to other companies. Leaving the official or more official video card in AMD machines a void. Usually filled by Broadcom.
I also have a friend with a DV1000T series with a Celeron M model and the build quality is very much the same, and hers even feels lighter.
One thing I have to note. The Turion64 X2's have not made the break through like I thought. I didn't expect much more then a Core Duo competitior, but they have not recieved Best Buy / Circuit City ad space for back to school timing.
Circuit City = 2 ML series and 1 TL-50. 8 intel's and only 1 Pentium M.
Best Buy = 3 TL's. 3 intel's.
Right now.... V3000 series Compaq with 1gb ram, TL-50, 80gig hard drive, dvd-rw $799 after instant savings.
For $749 in comparison an Intel T2050, 512mb ram, 120gb, dvd-rw after instant savings as well.
It would be a tough choice unless you owned a Turion before.
I give AMD 2 more tries at mobility before they have a real chip for intel.
After the TL series....another try...another series and finally a good chip.

Notebooks in comparison would be
DV1000T L2000
T2400 ML-32
1gb 1gb
80gb 5400rpm 80gb 5400rpm
14" brightview 14.1" brightview
built in webcam dvd-rw
dvd-rw 6 cell
6 cell Broadcom a/b/g
intel a/b/g w/ BT

Folding@Home could demolish my comp to no battery in less then a hour and a half. My new computer can withstand 2 hours+ of Folding@Home till dead.