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Help me choose a notebook please. HP DV1010us and DV1130us

Mar 3, 2005 7:00AM PST

I'm really confuse right now. These two models look exactly the same on the outside, features, softwares, etc. The DV1010 has a regular 14" widescreen LCD while the DV1130 has an extrabright screen at the same size. The DV1010 use celeron M 330 (1.4 GHz) which is .13 micron technology while the DV1130 use celeron M 360 (also 1.4 GHz) and that's a .09 micron. However, the DV1010 is 200 dollars cheaper which I intended to buy a 1 GB PC2700 ram to add on to it. So, if I end up paying the same amount of money, I can either get DV1010 with 1.25 GB of ram (it's dual slots so I figured that I can put 1 GB ram in 1 slot and leave one 256 MB ram on another slot--since the notebooks come with two 256 MB ram anyway so I might as well use it) or I can get DV1130 with 512 MB of ram. Now, my problem is that I always use several programs as once so the more ram the better for me (I usualy use over 300 MB right away after I turn on the computer). I also know that the battery on both models, which is the same battery, only last upto 3.5 hours according to HP (I think it would be somewhere around 2 HRs and 45 Min in real life since I'm not using a Pentium M notebok here). The problem is that I don't know how much different could it be in term of battery life between these two models since they use different version of Celeron M, although I figure it couldn't be that much different.

So, aside the fact that they use different processor which I don't think it would be that much different (unlike if we compare Celeron to Pentium M). The DV1130 has better screen (that could be annoying because it's reflect light so much I can see my own reflection on it) and the DV1010 will help me save enough money for more ram. Pretty close call on both so, could anybody give me some suggestion here. Thx for all comments.

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