I need a new laptop for school...

[Angcuru]

I recently ordered a Viewsonic V1250 Convertible Tablet PC. Basically, it's a high-powered laptop, the screen of which can be rotated and layed down over the keyboard for use as a gigantic PDA I.E. allows hand-written notes, sketchs, point-and-touch interface. Hopefully it will arrive tomorrow.

Cost about $2,000 (also ordered another battery) altogether,

 

[Conaill]

Check with your new university!!

Chances are very good they have some sort of deal with computer manufacturer to provide discounts for student computers. And if the university as a whole doesn't, your CS department might. A deal like that could easily save you 20-25% or more!

 

[mojo1701]

Check with your new university!!

Chances are very good they have some sort of deal with computer manufacturer to provide discounts for student computers. And if the university as a whole doesn't, your CS department might. A deal like that could easily save you 20-25% or more!

Well, I have checked, but it doesn't to the same extent that other universities do.

And when comparing processors, I remember that same clock speed on each processor is best on Pentium M, and so forth with Celeron being the lowest, but where does a pentium III fit in? Is it better or worse than the celeron?

 

[drothgery]

Well, I have checked, but it doesn't to the same extent that other universities do.

And when comparing processors, I remember that same clock speed on each processor is best on Pentium M, and so forth with Celeron being the lowest, but where does a pentium III fit in? Is it better or worse than the celeron?

A Pentium III probably a little bit slower than a Celeron M (and faster than a no-suffix Celeron or a Celeron D) at the same clock speed (generally speaking; in multimedia applications that use Pentium 4 optimizations, the Celeron will be faster, often by quite a bit). However, the Pentium III's very nearly a discontinued product, which means that the rest of the system is probably quite dated even if the CPU isn't, and the fastest Pentium III is slower than the slowest modern CPUs*.

* Except for the ultra-low-voltage variations of the Pentium M and Celeron M, which are used in some notebooks and Tablet PCs designed for extreme portability; and the extremely rare 1.4 GHz Pentium III-S, originally designed as a server chip and the fastest Pentium III ever made, can probably outrun the slowest Celerons.