Help me choose my processor please!

[petje]

Ok, so this is what I need. I need a laptop with enough performance to use Photoshop and some other pretty heavy design programs.
What's the story with Intel Celeron and Pentium, AMD K6, Thunderbird (??) and Duron and what will be the best combination (including RAM memory)? I'm willing to go for Celeron with 256 Mb RAM instead of PIII with 64Mb if this is OK and wordks out fine. Briefly, what are the alternatives for a regular, highly-priced PIII system.
What's the 128Kb RAM and 256 Kb that is is Celeron and Pentium?

Hope you guys can help me make a good decision! Cheers!

 

[CrimsonWolf]

Unfortunately, you have few choices. The only realistic choices are PIII's and Celeron II's. Laptop K7 processors are a long ways off and the K6-X series is so slow I wouldn't recommend it. I'm assuming that Photoshop requires a good deal of RAM so I would recommend 256 megs of RAM. As for the processor I would recommend at least a P3 600e or higher.

 

[jaydee]

You came to the right place. Actually K6-3's aren't to bad for the mobile market. It can't compare to PIII's, but I would consider it over a Cely any day.
I think your confusing RAM with cache at the end. The cely's contain 128kb of L2 cache (actually if you want to be techinical, it has 256k, but half is labled bad, and consequently disabled by intel leaving you 128), and PIII's 256. That make a bit of difference in some cases. The real bottleneck that gets your attention on the cely, is the week fsb running at a mere 66mhz. That being said, I would aim for a K6-3+, with 128 or 256 MB of RAM, and see how that compares to a cely system. Then go with the cheaper one. If your the patient type, hang around for a few months and pick up a duron with Geforce2 go, and you'll be set. If not, this is my recomendation.