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Does anyone know the approximate battery life of the Compaq R4000 line? They seem to be a pretty good deal, and I was wondering if it's worth it.
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I'm waiting for delivery on that one also. My guess will be about 2-3 hours max with 12 cell batteries. My Compaq pentium M Centrino runs about 6.5 hours with 12 cell batteries.
It depends on the processor you pick also. I keep reading different things about the new 4000+ AMD. Some says that it draws 15 watts more than 3000+ AMD.
I bought the R4000, it's not here yet but I should have it by Friday. I did quite abit of searching and I couldn't find a better laptop that gives you better straight performance ( at least based on the hardware) for your buck. I don't know what the battery life is like yet but there are few laptops out there that offer up to two gigs of ram, 5400 RPM hard drive and a PCI express video card. I was able to two together a monster system ( Athlon 64 4000+, 2 gb ram, 80 GB 5400 rpm hard drive, 128 mb ait 200m express, and two 12 cell batteries.) for $1900. If Battery life is your top priority you really shouldn't go for anything but centrino or perhaps an AMD Turion 64 mobile. Also if you're looking for a nice big screen you should look else where. However if you want a solid desktop replacement I really don't think there's a better deal out there. I should no for sure by the end of this weeked.
Well if 2GB of RAM, a 5400 RPM Hard drive, and a PCI-X graphics card are your priorities, you can get that in a Dell 6000t. In fact, you can get a 7200-rpm hard drive.
Those specs are actually not as rare as you might think.
I didn't mean to say those specs were that rare. Just at that price. I just congiured a dell 6000, which doesn't offer an 80 gig 7200 rpm drive. And it's 2,957 before shipping. The Compaq R4000 was just under 2,000 after shipping. I'd personally preffer to save a grand.
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