Sugestions On Laptop??

[willbemcse]

I am looking at these two laptops one is Toshiba Celeron M (1.4) and the other one is Gateway Athlon M3000+ . I am looking for a laptop for internet, web page design. How reliable are gateway laptops ??

 

[frankie38]

get the toshiba. gateway are not too good.

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: frankie38
get the toshiba. gateway are not too good.

there's a nice uninformed blanket statement.

 

[willbemcse]

Why Toshiba , its a celeron M will that make it too slow or now, I know AMD's are little quick. I read the reviews of gateway(actually its a emachines laptop) there were quite a few complaints regarding it.

 

[LtPage1]

before you make a decision, play around with an apple. i just cant recommend anything else.
if you HAVE to get a windoze laptop, id pick the toshiba from those two. theyve got a pretty good reputation for laptops.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: willbemcse
Why Toshiba , its a celeron M will that make it too slow or now, I know AMD's are little quick. I read the reviews of gateway(actually its a emachines laptop) there were quite a few complaints regarding it.

Celeron M is based on the Pentium M core ("Bananas") not the Pentium 4 core.

That means it's low power, cool running, and actually pretty fast. For actual speed you'll need to find reviews of the C-M, maybe at TomsHardware if the "Mobile" tab at the top of this page doesn't have any.

My personal ranking of laptop brands:

1. IBM
2. Dell, Toshiba
3. HP/Compaq, Sony
4. everyone else

...though many people put Sony in the #2 group.

 

[KBtn]

I have had very good experience with Sony. They are usually a bit more expensive though.

 

[stevty2889]

I'd go with the Toshiba. As Dave said, the Celeron M is based on the Banias(Pentium-M) so it is much faster than a pentium 4 celeron would be. Plus it doesn't take that much proccessing power to browse the internet and design web pages.

 

[Thegonagle]

The Gateway P-4 notebook my girlfriend uses is awful as far as I'm concerned. The fan refuses to stay at a steady speed; every few minutes, it switches to a fully irritating, loud high-speed Abit northbridge fan immitation mode for a good 30 seconds. It's cyclical, so it's especially difficult to tune it out. That otherwise very nice notebook is about 1 1/2 years old, so maybe Gateway is using a different cooling system now, but I'd never buy a Gateway notebook sight unseen after experiencing that P-4.

I'm typing this post on a 1.8 GHz "Dothan" notebook. I am in love with this processor. Speed-Step automatically de-clocks the processor down to 600 MHz when it's at or near idle. Using my notebook in a library to surf or do homework, the cooling fan rarely turns on at all, and if it does, it's so slow that it's inaudible over the already quiet hard drive. The silence is golden, especially in a library.

With the Intel "M" line, the CPU uses little power, and therefore runs cool. The Celeron-M, AFAIK, lacks speed-step, so it won't be as cool and efficient as the Pentium-M, but that wouldn't stop me from trying it if I needed to go low-cost.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Toshiba has so many recalls, stay away from Toshiba.

Gateway today is like Dell, sort of generic BTO, good buy.

For the best, only buy HP-Compaq business line or IBM.