>Peoples, i don't think you a getting what avicus is asking.
oh, i think i did. and if you look at the first sentence of my reply, i pretty much said the difference are small enough that it doesn't matter.
but i also posted that he should consider what he's buying. been a few threads around about people who purchased laptops and then wished they had not.
oh, btw, you can disable the speedstep feature when running on battery if you want the cpu to always run at its fastest.