ok i need advice

[streather]

hi there,

at some point in the next 2 months im getting given between 500 and 600 pounds to buy a laptop i've been looking around and theres quite a few laptops for that price range, theres a couple that have caught my eye but i'd appreciate if theres any recommedations?
my main requirements are 40+hdd, 512mb+ RAM, built in wlan, and i'd prefer either a AMD turion 64 cpu or a intel duo pro.

one thing though, im unsure which would be better, im not much of a gamer, but i do usually multitask quite alot

so any advice would be much appreciated

thank you

one thing,

the laptops that have caught my eye so far are
dell inspiron 6400 (intel duo core)
asus A6U
and a compaq V5031EA

 

[Paperlantern]

One thing to keep in mind, Pentium M if you need portability, they help on the battery life SO much, if you will use it primarily at a desk or at least plugged in, and you dont need battery life, any CPU will do fine, including the incredibly power hungry (and hot) intel dual cores. those things suck batteries like they were water, power consuption and the need for fans to keep them cool.

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
One thing to keep in mind, Pentium M if you need portability, they help on the battery life SO much, if you will use it primarily at a desk or at least plugged in, and you dont need battery life, any CPU will do fine, including the incredibly power hungry (and hot) intel dual cores. those things suck batteries like they were water, power consuption and the need for fans to keep them cool.

if you are talking about core duo's, that is somewhat exaggerated...

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
One thing to keep in mind, Pentium M if you need portability, they help on the battery life SO much, if you will use it primarily at a desk or at least plugged in, and you dont need battery life, any CPU will do fine, including the incredibly power hungry (and hot) intel dual cores. those things suck batteries like they were water, power consuption and the need for fans to keep them cool.

bullcrap

 

[Paperlantern]

not really, the dual cores are desktop cpus, they werent made for laptops, but suit yourselves =)

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
not really, the dual cores are desktop cpus, they werent made for laptops, but suit yourselves =)

Again, bullcrap. Saying "suit yourself" doesn't make your statements any closer to true.

 

[streather]

well the core duo is whats powering the new macbook pro's isnt it? im edging towards going for a amd turion based laptop now anyway basically because i've been itching to build a desktop with a athlon 64 in it for months just havent be able to afford one lol, plus the only core duo i've found in my price range is a dell inspiron 6400 and its only on sale for the next few days so it might go back up to 700ish again

 

[Paperlantern]

6000SUX i dont know what your problem is, but your being a dick, my statement is true, the dual cores are power hogs, a Intel dual core (hyperthreaded) processor is is a DESKTOP processor, and the laptops that use them suck through batteries like crazy, i think your confusing the dual and duo, i wasnt tlaking about the duo, a duo is another mobile type processor, dedicated to being very power efficient.

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
6000SUX i dont know what your problem is, but your being a dick, my statement is true, the dual cores are power hogs, a Intel dual core (hyperthreaded) processor is is a DESKTOP processor, and the laptops that use them suck through batteries like crazy, i think your confusing the dual and duo, i wasnt tlaking about the duo, a duo is another mobile type processor, dedicated to being very power efficient.

Every Core Duo chip is an Intel dual core chip, and was not made to be a desktop processor. Hence when you say something like "the dual cores are desktop cpus, they werent made for laptops" you are either lying or misguiding people based on your own ignorance.

You started out talking about "incredibly power hungry (and hot) intel dual cores". The dual core chips from Intel that are showing up in many notebooks now, Core Duo chips, are not incredibly power hungry and hot. They are more efficient than previous Centrino chips.

I'm not being a dick. You shouldn't post crap; it can mislead people.

 

[Paperlantern]

.... i'm not even wasting my time arguing with you, go bother someone else

 

[ubercaffeinated]

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/coreduo/

From website: "* The Intel® Core? Duo processor breaks new ground. Its dual-core technology rewrites the rules of computing, delivering optimized power efficient computing and breakthrough dual-core performance with amazingly low power consumption. Intel Core Duo processor is available in Intel's premium laptop platform, Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology+. It can also be found in select Intel® Viiv? technology-based systems?."

I think I should win this argument by virtue of google-ing.

 

[Ionizer86]

Originally posted by: 6000SUX
They are more efficient than previous Centrino chips.

It's true that these Core Duo (Yonah) chips are indeed mobile chips and are much more efficient than Pentium D chips, including the 900 series. They do fine in notebooks.
However, they are not necessarily more efficient than previous Centrino chips. The TDP of the Core Duo is 31W. This compares with 27W for a 533 bus Dothan (Sonoma platform), 21W for Dothan on 400 bus, and 24.5W for Banias.

At stock though, the Yonah laptops are getting similar battery performance to the Sonomas. But do keep in mind that if you're a minimalist user, the Sonomas aren't quite getting the battery life of the previous Dothan / 400 generation notebooks.

I'm also very interested in seeing how undervolting a Duo goes, because I've undervolted my Dothan 400 from 1.34 (max) / 0.988 (min) to 0.94 (max) / 0.70 (min), and I believe my chip's TDP is now under 10W. If a Duo undervolts very well because of its 65nm process, this could get interesting.

 

[streather]

ok i've decided to go for a amd turion based laptop,
unless dell lower that price a lot, so any suggestions??

 

[streather]

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