Compaq Model R3310US

I am planning on getting a new laptop soon. I was wondering if the Compaq Presario Notebook with Mobile AMD Athlon™ XP-M Processor 3000+ Model: R3310US, is a good all-around machine. I will probably not be doing much gaming, but more application work. How good is the battery life on this notebook? Also, is the 256KB cache too little or is everything run smoothly. I am most concerned about battery life, so if anyone knows where to find any more information on this, I would be obliged to have it. Thanks

 

For everything except gaming it's a very good machine (the GeForce 440 Go is slow by dedicated memory GPU standards but it'll beat any shared memory video chip). Battery life... hmm, probably 2-3 hours given its 8 cell battery (I get 3-4 with a 12 cell on my Configure-To-Order machine). Much better than what you'd get from a P4 anyhow. If you're concerned about the smaller L2 cache, spend a little more for one of the Athlon 64 models in the same R3000 series, they have 1MB L2 cache. Unless you're going to REALLY stress the CPU I doubt you'll notice. You might want the Athlon 64 so you'll be ready for 64-bit WinXP.