this laptop is supposed to have a flash hard drive

i can't wait for all the laptops to make this transition... in a year or two

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Originally posted by FunkyCrew I think initial research like that is good enough to be a little more cautious

Fan of the precautionary principle, are you? None for me, thanks - I'll stick with my cell phones, computer monitors, plastic wrap, McDonald's cheeseburgers, aerosol deodorant, microwave ovens, aspartame, tuna fish and salmon, tylenol, tap water, dental fillings, Windex, insecticide, prescription drugs and vaccines, Alar, sugar, asbestos, potato chips, herbicides, red meat, soap, food dye, toothpaste, and yes, even testicle heating.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Fan of the precautionary principle, are you? None for me, thanks - I'll stick with my cell phones, computer monitors, plastic wrap, McDonald's cheeseburgers, aerosol deodorant, microwave ovens, aspartame, tuna fish and salmon, tylenol, tap water, dental fillings, Windex, insecticide, prescription drugs and vaccines, Alar, sugar, asbestos, potato chips, herbicides, red meat, soap, food dye, toothpaste, and yes, even testicle heating.

lol, how long did it take you to come up with that list?
Quite thorough. ^5.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Fan of the precautionary principle, are you? None for me, thanks - I'll stick with my cell phones, computer monitors, plastic wrap, McDonald's cheeseburgers, aerosol deodorant, microwave ovens, aspartame, tuna fish and salmon, tylenol, tap water, dental fillings, Windex, insecticide, prescription drugs and vaccines, Alar, sugar, asbestos, potato chips, herbicides, red meat, soap, food dye, toothpaste, and yes, even testicle heating.

impressive list indeed!

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Originally posted by DigiNut Ultraportables suck ass. Wimpy performance, no battery life, and run hot enough to burn your lap if you actually leave it there.

You are using the ultra portable for the wrong reason then. Small laptops should never be complete replacements for what a desktop can do, and when used properly, they are not.

Such small laptops allow you to do specialized tasks in any environment, with a minimum of equipment to carry. The laptop which I showed does everything I want it to do for school. I can configure networks, program, and do word processing, all with minimal power (P2-266). And, after I replace the batteries, I should have up to a 5hr life span on a single charge. When paired with the right operating system, and choice of software, I would take ultra-portable over ultra-capable, and some what portable.

If I need to do any movie, audio, or graphic editing, I can wait till i get home to use my a more powerful computer.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Ultraportables suck ass. Wimpy performance, no battery life, and run hot enough to burn your lap if you actually leave it there.

14 Hour expected battery life.

source


And in my experience, it's actually been the opposite. Ultra-portables have higher batter life, no? I've got a very non-portable Inspirion 9100, weighs like 10lbs and has a batter life of under 2 hours. Not only that, but it runs very hot, and needs fans blasting at full speed to cool itself most of the time.. I forget the model number, but the more portable inspirion that is essentially the same as the 9100, but different processor and smaller body, had a battery life that was over twice as long. And alot quieter.

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Originally posted by DJ Chrono 14 Hour expected battery life. source

lol, got me on that one.

Granted a lot of that extra life will be thanks to the flash drive. I wonder what life will be like when its actually processing, chomping away on data, rather than just reading from the drive.

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Originally posted by DJ Chrono 14 Hour expected battery life.

Bahahahaha... as if. I guess they can claim anything they want before the thing is actually developed!

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And in my experience, it's actually been the opposite. Ultra-portables have higher batter life, no? I've got a very non-portable Inspirion 9100, weighs like 10lbs and has a batter life of under 2 hours. Not only that, but it runs very hot, and needs fans blasting at full speed to cool itself most of the time.. I forget the model number, but the more portable inspirion that is essentially the same as the 9100, but different processor and smaller body, had a battery life that was over twice as long. And alot quieter.

You haven't specified what was in the ultra-portable, but the Inspiron 9100 uses a Pentium 4 and other horribly inefficient components, whereas I'm going to guess that the ultraportable you're talking about uses a Centrino (Core Duo or Pentium M) and integrated graphics, both of which deliver much better performance at much higher power efficiency; hence less heat, less noise, and more battery life. The difference in computing has been extremely noticeable, especially in the laptop world, ever since Intel abandoned the sinking ship of the P4.

Ultraportables have lower battery life by definition because they have smaller batteries. It's just common sense. You can't compare the new UPs with older tanks because the technology is completely different.

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no laptop in the world would give you 14h battery life

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Originally posted by geroin no laptop in the world would give you 14h battery life

the new ones should, with their flash based hard drives.

it's like when the ipod ditched their hard drives (with physical components) to the nano (flash based), you saw almost a doubling of battery life.

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