The answer to your question, from all of the searching I have done (I
cannot find an explicit list of sub $1000 laptops) is as follows.
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/hardware/notebooks/0,39001749,39133705,00.htm
Advises that the Acer Travelmate 4000 laptop has a battery life of
over 6 hours. This, for any laptop is an amazing amount of time.
The unfortunate side of this is that the laptop, according to Cnet's
price is just over 1200 dollars.
After having a quick check I have found the laptop for 860 dollars on this website
http://www.pcwd.net/html/acer_4060_0.html
However, you have mentioned that you would prefer a Dell laptop (I
work for a Dell reseller so this is perfectly in my ball park).
I personally use a Latitude D510, 1.73GIG CPU, 1.2GIG Ram, 80GIG Hard
Drive, DVD rewriter 15inch screen.
This laptop easily has a battery life of over 3 hours (I mostly get
close to 5 hours as I have the screen quite dimly lit), using a Dell
C26035 battery. Compared to those other laptops that is not that long,
but considering what is inside the laptop I am very happy with it. The
performance is amazingly fast too.
On the CNET site there is the Dell Inspiron 6000, I have personally
sold this laptop to customers and have used it myself and I have to
admit, without bias, that it is an amazing laptop, one of the few
laptops I have wowed at. The battery life was so long I did not have
enough time to run it out myself. The DVD play back was amazing and
the front panel DVD buttons were perfect (I miss them not being there
on the D510).
The price CNET have listed for this product I believe to be so far out
that it is not worth regarding any pricing CNET ever show. I have been
regularly selling better 6000s than this for under 1000 dollars each.
Unfortunately Dell do not sell this laptop any more so I will have
give to you a page that has the equivalent laptops for sale (from
Dell).
If you are looking for a dual core processor in a laptop (it is
possible to get one of these from Dell for under 1000 dollars) check
this Dell page
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/entnb_e1505?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
These laptops seem to be the Inspiron 6000's new equivalent.
For a complete list of all laptops that dell are currently selling
check this webpage
http://www.dell.com/content/products/results.aspx/notebooks?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&~ck=anav&a=9699~0~53910&navla=9699~0~53910
For information on the Duo Core Processor from Intel check this webpage
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/coreduo/
"The Intel® Core? Duo processor breaks new ground. Its dual-core
technology rewrites the rules of computing, delivering optimized power
efficient computing and breakthrough dual-core performance with
amazingly low power consumption."
The processor was designed to run on the laptop platform and provide
extremely low power consumption. (Thus longer battery life!)
As for a power consumption between the Pentium M and the Core Duo CPUs
from Intel check this website
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=6&artpage=1910&articID=434
It basically shows that a Core Duo using one CORE (equivalent to using
your Pentium M) uses less power than the Pentium M. If you use BOTH
cores of the Core DUO you will be using more power, however the
increase in power usage does not push the total power usage to much
more than using a single Pentium M CPU.
As you can see, getting a laptop with a Core Duo could be a wiser
choice in the long run.
I hope this answers your question, any thoughts leave me a comment.
--Keystroke-ga |
