[NTLUG:Discuss] About that Elitebook 2530p....

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:17:01PM -0500, Robert Pearson wrote:
> On 6/25/09, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:36:55AM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> >  > I mentioned to John T. and others that the Elitebook 2530p had a serial
> >  > port... it DOES NOT.  I was mistaken.  It's still a great mini-laptop
> >  > though.  Near netbook size but with full horsepower.
> >
> > Just to echo Chris' comments here -- I have a 2530p and I
> >  _really_ like it.  Battery life for me regularly runs about 6
> >  hours with the standard 6-cell battery.
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> Is your 2530p have the same configuration as Chris's "L9600  @
> 2.13GHz, 160G disk, 4G memory"?

I have a L9400, 1.86GHz, 3G memory.

> When I went looking at these I did not find any with this fast a
> processor. The slower processor's are also cheaper. There was one
> L9300 at 1.8GHz, 160 G disk, 2G memory for $1000 including tax and
> shipping from a 4.5 (out of 5) star rated vendor.

I think the L9300 is actually 1.6GHz.  

> I'm confused. How much slower would this be in the real world? Noticeable?

For the work I do, my laptop is quite fast.  In fact, for compiling
Parrot and Perl 6 it's about 33% faster than the 2.80GHz Intel Pentium D 
processor that is in the desktop machine I bought a couple of years ago.

In other words, for my purposes the Elitebook with the L9400 is
plenty fast relative to the other machines I'm used to using.

Pm