engineering student laptop rec.

[rebith75]

Hi, I am an engineering student that does no gaming and I am in the market for a new laptop and have some options im sort of confused about the differences. one has 1 gig dual channel and core duo 2300 1.66 ghz 2mb cache the other is just a pentium m 1.73 with 1gb shared ram the runs at slow fsb (??). I was wondering if the first would be overkill for what I am doing (no gaming, general applications, some big engr applications), the difference is about 400 dollars in the two, what would you guys suggest, thanks

 

[otispunkmeyer]

if you gonna buy a laptop now, id go with

at least 1 gig of ram.....cad packages, FEA packages and like will need it.

id also plug for the Core Duo Pentium M's.....these are dual core Pentium M's and they will greatly speed up multitasking, especially if you have to do computational stuffs on things like fluid flows, calculate FEA models, render 3d cad models and such dual core will really help you out.

id also try go for a discrete graphics solution (ie not Intel extreme ******) something thats got its own video memory and doesnt leech off the main memory. ATI and Nvidia both have some good parts in this area.

and with regards to FSB.......make sure its the 533FSB. thats what all the newer PM's run on, and its dual channel as well which provides 2x the bandwidth (almost) over single channel ram set up found on the 400FSB models