T61 Purchase.

I am about to buy a T61. I bought a T60 for my wife last May and we love it. The only thing I am having trouble deciding on is going with the discrete graphics or with the nvidia or intel graphics. Battery life is important. I don't know how much of a penalty you pay on battery life having the bigger gpu.

I don't plan on using it for gaming. Mostly just running windows and linux. I will be doing a little video editing on it (home movies from my camcorder).

Any info/opinions on that would be helpful.

Also, has anyone had any luck getting Lenovo to ship Windows media with their laptop? The first thing I wanted to do when I got my wife's laptop (with Windows Vista) was to wipe it and put just Windows back on so that all of the trialware would be gone. But I don't have the media, so that wasn't possible.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Debusoh

 

Quite a difference in battery life. I would suggest going with integrated video if you don't plan on much gaming and value battery life. The X3100 is alot better than past intergrated solutions too.

 

Go with the integrated since you don't do any gaming or run any graphic intensive programs. And like the poster above me stated, the 3100 is alot better than what "integrated" used to be.

 

Nvidia sucks up a lot of juice so would get Intel Integrated Graphics.

 

There is about an hour difference in battery life between the NVIDIA and X3100.