What Laptop Has the Best Video?

magarity asks: "Compared to the primarily NVidia vs ATi desktop video market, there seem to be plenty of video chip choices for laptop makers with no clear market leader in installations. It seems no "mobile" variant or original video chip stands out. As a fan of NVidia graphics chips for desktops, I went looking to buy a laptop with the mobile variant of the Geforce2 chip, cleverly named the 'GeForce2go'. To my suprise, these are few and far between and only found two Dells and four Toshibas. HP, Compaq, and IBM laptops use a wide variety of other chips including manufacturers I'd never heard of until now. Does someone have a real-world report on whether the GeForce2go sucks batteries or just plain sucks? And since no one seems to be, who in your opinion should be the leader of the pack for mobile video?"

Re:Hate video settings on my Thinkpad A20m

[iforgotmyfirstlogon]

As a footnote, Gaming does suck down the batteries. Star Fleet Battles sucks down the juice twice as fast as taking notes in a meeting. I can get close to 3 hours on a full charge doing just word processing, and that goes down to about 1.5 hours gaming.

- Freed

Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know what you will be using your portable for and why you're asking about video chipsets but in my, and many others, opinion Apple makes the best laptops for video. The new PowerBook G4s have a Rage Mobility w/16MB RAM, and an awesome 1152x768 screen. If you're looking for a good portable for taking to a LAN party and frag your buddies in UT or Q3A the PBG4 is a nice slim computer with plenty of power to push those pixels to the screen, not to mention AirPort and gigabit ethernet builtin for the networking. If your looking to do video editing there's the included iMovie and numerous pro level packages for doing that, along with the builtin FireWire and dual display feature (internal LCD and extrnal VGA or S-video) you have a nice video editing portable. Since this is Slashdot I feel the need to mention that you can run a number of different Linux distributions and *BSD variants. Mandrake, SUSE, YellowDog, LinuxPPC are a sample of the Linux distros to choose from. If BSD is more your style you've got Darwin, MacOSX, and NetBSD. Since you didn't specify that you're looking for an x86 I thought I'd chime in with my two cents.