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    Best processing / battery life combo???

    Discussion in 'HP' started by d_hippy, Mar 28, 2005.

  1. d_hippy

    d_hippy Newbie

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    Hey,
    I really appreciated your posts about z5000z battery life. I looking to get an hp/compaq and I had a few questions.

    I need a machine that gets at least 3hrs of battery life but 4 or 5hrs would be nice. I do a lot of video editing and compositing; that won’t be using the battery or the internal HD of course. I need pretty good processor power and a ton of ram (aftermarket) and a pretty good video card and I’m looking to 15.4”.

    4.I really like AMD and I trying to decide whether I should go 64 and how fast?

    5.Or if I should go athlon XP for the battery life.

    6.Or do the centrino / Pentium M

    There is no way that I’m going go for the P4 battery sucker I had one for a week no thanks.

    I can’t get anyone to give me a strait answer on battery life or hardcore crunching like rendering. I was hoping anyone could get me some info and help me out.
     
    d_hippy, Mar 28, 2005
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    You'll get the best battery life with a Pentium M CPU. They run at much lower voltages than either Pentium 4 or AMD. If you want a laptop with good battery life, you should consider one with a modular bay battery. You can swap out the optical drive for another battery. I get about six hours on my ThinkPad with both batteries on medium settings. Don't let the clock speed fool you on Pentium Ms. They have much larger on board caches which greatly increases the performance relative to the clock speed. What is your budget? Couple I'd took at are the Fujitsu n3510 or Acer TravelMate 8103. HP is supposed the be redoing the zv5000 into the zv6000. It may even include the AMD Turion, AMD's Pentium M fighter. You may want to hang out and see what that offers. Lastly, when doing video encoding, hard drive can be a bottleneck. I'd definetly the Hitachi 7200RPM drive. Good Lcuk.






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    Thinkpad T41:
    * 1.6Ghz Pentium M * 768Mb Memory * 40Gb Hitachi 7200RPM * Panasonic UJ-845-B DVD+RW *
     
    ZaZ, Mar 29, 2005
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  3. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    You definitely want an Athlon 64. 64-bit WinXP was supposed to have been Released-To-Manufacturing yesterday (Monday) and be available in April. Video editing apps are going to be ported to 64-bits very quickly. I'd go straight to the 3700+ in your case. You can undervolt with CrystalCPUID to extend the battery life, not as far as a Pentium-M but more powerful and very miserly when the CPU isn't being stressed. 3-4 hours of battery life with moderate CPU usage is not a problem.

    The zv6000 may come with 64-bit WinXP preinstalled (I'm guessing that's what they're waiting for), if so you might want to wait for that. HP is being mean and not telling us what they're putting in the things.
     
    brianstretch, Mar 29, 2005
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