SAT Questions

at school i have a laptop and its an acer elitebook i thinkand the battery lasts 6 hours am i really confused because i ahve a laptop that i use at home (because school laptops are monitored 24/7) and its a toshiba satellite and the battery lasts only an hour (if that) is there any way i can play with the settings or anything to make it last longer?
i just bought my laptop 2 months ago and the battery life already went down from an hour and a half

I’m going to buy a new laptop soon, and I’ve read some articles online about the AMD and Intel mobile processors. According to their tests, Intel Core 2 Duo outperformed Amd Turion X2 in any test environment. But laptops like Alienware Assassin series use Turion X2 and Acer Ferrari series use it too, and they claim that it is their top of the line system. So if Core 2 Duo is better, then why don’t the manufactures use it, rather than using Turion X2?

I have been having problems with my older laptop. Windows XP keeps restarting and looping. I am unable to use safe mode because when I choose any of those options, a blank screen appears and that’s it, or it freezes. It was an Acer Inspire 5004 WLMi and it has a 100GB hard drive that was partitioned into two sections. I took the hard drive out, and I want to repartition it to get all of my data off of there so that I can use this laptop as a test laptop and put Windows 7 on there. How do I repartition the notebook hard drive with a usb disk enclosure? If I must use another method, please let me know that as well.