Re: Is Pentium M a better CAD chip than P4 and Athlon even?

>Anyhow, it sounds like fairly casual CAD usage, so ultimate CPU grunt power
>probably shouldn't take highest priority over cost, etc.

yeah.....

Laptop would probably do me OK

I've just never owned one before and not sure if Id
like one or not

Especially since most of the time it will be used as a
"desktop".... i.e hardly moved

If you were gonna get a laptop yourself....what size
screen would you for? Let me rephrase that.... what
would be the SMALLEST screen you'd live with in a
laptop?

And what resolution?
.

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