Centrino/Pentium M most definately. P4's will eat your batteries for breakfast! The Centrino's are ment to be used in laptops, and have great power management abilities.
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Originally posted by Random Intarweb forum
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As a general rule, the Pentium M (which, along with the Intel 855/915 core logic and an Intel Wi-Fi adapter, comprises the Centrino chipset) offers the same performance as a Pentium 4 running 1.2 GHz faster. Therefore, a 2-GHz Pentium M offers about the same performance as a 3.2-GHz Pentium 4.
At the same time, the Pentium M draws so much less electricity than the Pentium 4 that Centrino-based laptops offer battery runtimes that are up to twice as long as those of P4-based systems. Centrino-based laptops need much smaller battery packs to power them, which makes them much more compact and lightweight that P4 notebooks. Beyond that, the Pentium M also generates very little heat, which means the fans on a Centrino laptop won't kick on very loud or very often, unlike the distracting fan noise that often comes from Pentium 4-based laptops.
Because of all these reasons, there are far more Pentium M-based laptops on the market now than there are Pentium 4-based models. Go with Pentium M.
The IBM Thinkpads are best PC laptops you can buy
If you wanna go the mac route, get a iBook from Apple
They have some pretty cool education discounts. Plus, they just updated the product line so now would be the perfect time to buy. That is until the Mactel's come out.
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