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    Question about 15" XGA and hdd speed vs battery

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by dvorak, Dec 22, 2004.

  1. dvorak

    dvorak Newbie

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    Hello

    I had two questions and thought to unite them into one thread.

    I am interested in buying a T42 model (P-M 745/80GB@4200rpm/ATI-R9600@64MB/15"@XGA).
    The whole dilemma of mine lies in the fact, that it has a 15-inch screen but at the resolution of 1024*768, aka XGA. Is it any good, can it be usable, or do the icons/screen look very bad and big? The [email protected]" is quite normal for me, could be bigger at sometimes, I like to not focus very much when reading/working, so I think the extra inch could be useful making everything a tad bigger.
    I myself am used to XGA resolution with my CRT monitors, but ofcourse now I'm lacking the extra pixels from SXGA+.
    The [email protected]" model is way to expensive in my country, so that falls out.

    Also I'm curious, I can choose a similar model with one the difference being the hard drive and its speed (both have XGA@15").
    The other one has a 60GB HDD with 7200rpm vs 80GB 5200rpm.
    Is there a noticable difference in speed of those two in laptop enviroments (perhaps now-or-then I'll try HL2 :p)? And is there a big difference in battery draining (both laps have 6cells), if, does the benefit overweigh the battery spending?

    Thanks and awaiting your answers/discussions :)
     
    dvorak, Dec 22, 2004
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  2. kaangonel

    kaangonel Notebook Enthusiast

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    i would buy 14" version, you will be using the same resolution, and but with a 15" screen, you loose the advantage of t series -they are thin and light-

    60 GB is a very large disk space, i bealive that you will notice speed difference with faster HDD in most cases, especialy boot up times.
     
    kaangonel, Dec 24, 2004
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