Hi all, I am thinking about buying a laptop and i was wondering which type of processor i should get. As far as i can tell the best choices are the Intel Centrino Duos (dual core) or teh AMD Turion 64s. I cant seem to find any AMD dual cores for laptops out there and i was kinda leaning towards the Intel. Any info would be helpful
it comes down to personal preference and getting the best deal on performance that you can. i'd go AMD, but that's because i'm a fanboy. be sure to research all aspects of the compie and buy from a reputable company.
well i was thinkin of this one cos i can only spendup to maybe $1250 http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11117911&whse=BC&topnav=&browse= i always liked toshiba, but have heard bad things about most other companies. Costco seems to be the best place to get this model price wise so i chose there. As for the other companies: Dell seems overpriced because i tried to build the same exact laptop on their site and it was considerably more expensive. Sony also seems overpriced to me. Gateway and emachines r the same company since they merged and i would buy 1 of those but this seems to be the best I could find for the price. As for HP and Compaq, which r the same company, I have heard numerous reports of them selling faulty equipment and then taking forever to replace it. o well tahts just the info in my mind
well, i must say, my sister has a toshiba, and it's stood up to all her computer illiterate BS for 4 years, with only a dead modem to show for it. just a few weeks ago i picked up this HP: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...t&productCategoryId=cat15107&id=1149206842513 definitely an awesome piece of portable compie machinery.
thast a little too heavy for me :/ 8 lbs is a lot to be carrying to class everyday... esp when i take a bus and gotta walk to and from bus stop. Also, its a HP and ppl i know have had very very bad experiences with HP so im gonna avoid that. Thanks for the suggestion tho. I was lookin at a 17 in. a while ago but it was just too heavy and it got like 2 hours battery life :/ in the end i decided on this 1 because of weight and it gets almost 2x the battery life. I figured i wouldnt need a 17 in. screen on a laptop.
i'm a amd fanboy also but i have to admit intel is better when it comes to mobile cpus, becareful when it comes to toshiba i had one of their laptops its monitor and power systems went bad on mine, i cant use it when plugged in, and its monitor always flickers black all that in only a couple of months
Xevlys - what about a laptop carry case.Most of the new sonys are kinda light(i would get one of those) Auslander - i was gonna get that laptop aswell but i wasnt sure of the graphics card.Its much cheaper in the us than in the uk.Comet is charging £999.99 for it and Currys is charging £699.99.Big difference by walking 100 metres
@ He_Man as i said before i find Sony to be a little over priced and im on a tight budgetso i think im gnna have to go for the Toshiba @ vegeta66 thats the first ive heard of a faulty toshiba but thx for the info im kinda stuck on toshiba tho cos they seem to have the rigt price for the equipment and quality
to show you how much power a intel core duo has ill tell you what my cousin can do with 1.86ghz processor.He can play music in wimp,play doom 3,run and download on azureus and talk to me on skype oh and burn a cd.
yea i figured lol but thats awesome. there shudnt be that much difference between a 1.83 ghz and a 1.86 ghz right?
if its an intel core duo then not really.If u downgraded to 1.66ghz then you would see a massive difference.
