Buying a laptop and I have questions! :o

[Staxeon]

Personal experience with the Pentium M, it never ran fast. Since the M runs slower to "conserve battery life" it never runs at full speed when you need it. Like any laptop user, when I was near an outlet I would plug in. But when I was on-site, away from an outlet, and I just wanted to get my work done and get out, that's when it would be slow. BTW, that one was a gateway too.

As far as overheating, I'm still not convinced Dell has overcome their heat issues. We had 3 and all 3 cooked due to mobo, fan, or CPU failures. And on one the hinge died in 6 months and wouldn't stay open. But any laptop needs space around it for airflow considering their fans are so small and they need all the help they can get. As long as you're not running it actually on your lap or in the bag all the time you should be ok.

Convertable tablets are so nice, handwriting recognition software is amazing.