Centrino Laptops Reviewed

Jeff Mancuso writes "CNET seems to be the first out with full reviews of the new Centrino Pentium M laptops. The performance looks solid, the features are great, designs are thin and battery life runs up to 4-7 hours on these machines." Yeah, I had hoped that we would make it on the review list, but alas, no such luck. Nice looking machines, though.

Comments

Damn it

[Toasty16]

The Centrinos are out and I had to buy a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a P4-M 1.80Ghz last Friday. I hate technology ;-)

Re:Damn it

[agallagh42]

Should have got the IBM T40. Check out these specs from the CNET review:

"anywhere from 256MB to a big 2GHz of speedy 266MHz DDR SDRAM"

Whoa, 2GHz of RAM? So big and new, they had to change the units of measure :-)

Re:Damn it

[CausticWindow]

I've got a better laptop.

Am I allowed to call him an assclown?

link?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks slashdot for providing a link to this fantastic full review!

Pentium M?

[Undaar]

What the hell happened to Pentiums V through CMXCIX?

next up:

[Anonymous Coward]

a review of Kathleen Fent.

Hey, stupid!

[barspin]

Yeah, I had hoped that we would make it on the review list, but alas, no such luck. Nice looking machines, though.

This will not get you a review unit any sooner. Review units are sent to news sites that actually test machines; not to a "news" site that would use the machine and then post a three-sentence blurb on, which would be followed by 400 comments about goatse.cx and SOVIET RUSSIA, and one on-topic post complaining about the price of the product reviewed.

Call this flamebait, troll, whatever, but it's reality: slashdot isn't classified in the realm of a legitimate news site. It's a BBS, plain and simple.

In summary: go buy your own fucking laptop, Hemos.

Re:Hey, stupid!

[fobbman]

One thing you are missing, barspin. If they did send /. a laptop for review, you KNOW that they'd post a story about it at LEAST twice. Call it the Taco 2 for 1 special.

Re:weight?

[Schwamm]

Pussy. If a woman can do it, so can you.

*cough*

i am a woman.

and yet i fail to see what bearing that has on my desire for a 3 pound laptop.

Re:Powerbook G4, irony

[notaspy]

"You Mac gayboys really ought to do your research. [snip] I don't sit at my computer all day using Photoshop filters. Look at games on Macs. They're pathetic."

That's a hoot, AC. You sit at your computer all day playing games and have the hubris to call Mac proponents "gayboys" (can you spell loser? Probably not, you'd probably spell it looser).

My guess is that most laptop purchasers buy laptops primarily to do useful work, not to play games. The story is about laptops, isn't it?

Once again, that's "loser" not "looser" or "loozer." It's a word you definitely should get used to hearing!

Laptop comment metareview

[foxtrot]

Seems there are two sorts of common comments that show up when Slashdot mentions a laptop:

• They're too heavy! Make them lighter!
  
• Battery life sucks! Make the batteries bigger!
  

Well, hard disks aren't getting any lighter, CD-ROMs aren't getting much lighter, keyboards're probably at the ragged edge of weight/reliability, TFT screens only get so light, and so, what's left?

Batteries.

Why's laptop battery life suck? Because as batteries get better they use less of them to make the laptop lighter. Why are laptops so heavy? Because if the batteries were any lighter, they'd have even less power...

I want a nice thick ten or fifteen pound laptop that's got enough battery life to last all day and enough reinforcement under the hood that I can thump users upside the head with it. Lightweight's overrated.

Re:Battery life

[JDWTopGuy]

Go pee on your hand sometime. Pee is very warm. And oh yeah, it doesn't smell good either.