Centrino Laptops Reviewed

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Posted by Hemos on Wednesday March 12, 2003 @03:30AM from the wireless-machine-run dept.

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.

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Damn it by Toasty16 · 2003-03-12 03:35 · Score: 4, Funny

The Centrinos are out and I had to buy a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a P4-M 1.80Ghz last Friday. I hate technology ;-)
1. Re:Damn it by agallagh42 · 2003-03-12 04:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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 :-)
  
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link? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-12 03:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Thanks slashdot for providing a link to this fantastic full review!
Pentium M? by Undaar · 2003-03-12 03:41 · Score: 5, Funny

What the hell happened to Pentiums V through CMXCIX?

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Hey, stupid! by barspin · 2003-03-12 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
1. Re:Hey, stupid! by fobbman · 2003-03-12 04:13 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  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? by Schwamm · 2003-03-12 04:20 · Score: 4, Funny

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 by notaspy · 2003-03-12 05:07 · Score: 4, Funny

"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!

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