Amd - Intel in notebooks? Anything i should know

[Moogoo112]

well i know the chip to get right now is centrino notebooks cuz they light n saves battery, but regular p4 processors compared to the amd mobile notebooks, any big differences? I figure amd ones prolly run hotter? cuz i have owned both amd n intel. I am debating to get a dell 600m from a guy in the forums for about 1020, but i've seen the amd notebooks for about 600 shipped, any good? the only thing is i dont need that great of a laptop and only need it for surfing web, email, and light gaming..Not a desktop replacement...oh and how are the celeron processors compared to athlon ones? suggestions? thx

 

[wetcat007]

Actually Intel CPU's produce more heat, if your not looking into a centrino/pentium m, it's whatever brand you prefer as well as the cost.

 

[Bekker]

I have a Celeron Dell 1100 and it does all you say you need. Memory makes a difference ... I am running XP home and have 256 megs and want at least another 128 or 256. I am pretty happy with mine. Bekker

 

[Xarthan]

pentium 4's have 512 of l2 cache and celeron have 128 l2 cache. CPU access L1 then L2 then the main memory.

At least I think that's how it goes. Since L2 is on dio it access it very fast.

So just think about this. You got a cup and want to put out a fire to a house, a celeron has a cup half the size smaller than the pentium 4 and the water from the pond is right there on ur driveway while the lake is down the street (main memory)

okay maybe my example sucked, but u get the idea....... er i hope... lol

 

[Frightcrawler]

good example, except theoretically, the celeron cup would be 1/4 cup, not 1/2, since celeron has 128K L2 cache and pentium 4-m has 512K.