Windows 7

[squeeforever]

Originally Posted by BP-Revo

Based on what you do, an iPad would be great.

How can you call a 17.3" laptop "not huge" !?

Mine is a 17" as well (Dell XPS M1730) and I think it's huge (I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, I knew how big it was when I bought it and I like that it's huge).

But I'll agree, battery life sucks. I have 2 Video Cards + a Physics card, 2 HD's, backlit full-size keyboard w/ numpad, a secondary LCD that displays crap like time and date, ram/cpu usage, news, what song I'm playing, and a bunch of ambient effect lights.

Just surfing the web with Wifi with screen at full brightness, I get 45 minutes. Turning the screen to it's dimmest setting and turning off all the lights and keyboard backlight, I get an extra 5 minutes...

I've gotten as little as 35 minutes of battery before off a full charge...

Meh, size isn't my main problem, its just that I only get about a hour and a half or two hours if I'm lucky with the battery. It's really not that big. Acer said it was the lightest 17" laptop on the market. I think it weighs about 6lbs.

[BP-Revo]

Originally Posted by squeeforever

Meh, size isn't my main problem, its just that I only get about a hour and a half or two hours if I'm lucky with the battery. It's really not that big. Acer said it was the lightest 17" laptop on the market. I think it weighs about 6lbs.

You get over an HOUR!?

Actually the is more of a response towards the weight. 6lbs is LIGHT! Wow... my old laptop is a 15.4 and it was 9lbs! (Dell Inspiron 8600).

My current one is a tank. ~11lbs. The power supply is an additional 1.5lbs.