thats hard. I was looking for the same system. Portability AND graphics is a rare and difficult combonation. I just got a Latitude D810. It has a DVD +- Burner, CD burner, 15.4 in Widescreen. Its supposed to get 4.5 hours on the battery, depending on activity and brightness. I bought 2 extra batteries on ebay for real cheap (50 for 1, and 20 for the other). I sjust got it yesterday and haven't tried to game on it yet. Hopefully its good. It has an ATI Radion 9600. On the CNET gaming test it did really well. Read the review on it from CNET. For gaming it scored higher than the HP ZD8000 lol. Another nice feature is the pointer. It has a touchpad too, but I prefer the mouse pointer thinging so I love this comp so far. Mine cost $20000 referb. Would be about 2300 brand new. I also got 1 gb of ram and a 3 year warantee. 2ghz sonoma cpu .
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Hi everyone, I'm currently in the market for a laptop and kinda of in a hurry to get one too... I'd appreciate it if any one of you guys could really help me out. I have a rough idea of what I need...
1) Above average battery life, preferrably enough to watch roughly two dvd movies and then some.. (most important I need)
2) 128mb graphics card, good enough to play games seamlessly out there...
3) Pentium M (1.8 +) processor of course, primarily because it saves on power and doesnt have the "heat" emitted from those with P4 and amd processors...
4) DVD+/-RW/R & CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer Support... also do any of you know about that lightscribe drive with HP and if it is any better or what the diff is between that and this one...
5) 15" screen max... I fly alot...
6) and finally one that looks good and of course most important, one thats reliable...
I'd appreciate it if I could get some of your ideas... I'm flyin out the country in mid June and really need one shipped and here before then... thank you.
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