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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 2071638" data-attributes="member: 360">Gaming -- Suprisingly good, mostly because graphics cards have more to do with gaming performance than the CPU.Audio/video - this is the P-M's weak spotOffice apps - quite good, though most moder CPUs are so fast in typical office app tasks that going from the slowest currently available Celeron to the fastest currently available Athlon 64 FX won't make a noticeable difference.That's going to vary quite a bit among individual notebooks, as the CPU isn't the single largest power draw on a notebook (the screen is). If you give a notebook a 17" screen and a desktop-speed hard drive, it's going to have short battery life even if the CPU used no power at all.</blockquote>