Dan, Re: and the Banias configured laptop had greater performance and battery life
>> ... and a different hard drive and a different video card.
The irony is that THG has tested Banias laptops with integrated graphics, and they still manage to outperform the AMD based laptops by significant margins in some tests. As for the hard drive, if it is responsible for the added performance and greater battery life in the Centrino laptop, then I'm sure it will be a fine seller. I highly doubt it, however.