Processors

Bottle_of_Smoke

Buying a laptop, posted this in a thread on that thread see

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Price range: E700-E1000
Intended use: Internet, boardsing & the like, usually have a billion windows open

College stuff next year but I'm fairly sure if it can run broadband its not gonna have a problem with word

Some games, but I'm not much into half life & the like, just whatever the best version of age of empires, those type things

Playing music would also be good but more focus on the card rather than the sound as I have a surround sound system & headphones

I'd like a cd burner, maybe dvd burner but not vital

Hard drive space not too important, cant ever see myself filling more than 20 gigs, but never know so I'll say a min of 40

Want to be able to have wireless broadband & access to wi fi

Mobility: from the pictures a 15.4 inch screen looks like the way to go, I'd obviously like it to be as slim as possible but have to take cost into consideration

Based on how controlling apple are with formatting for the ipod I dont wanna go near any of their comps.

Any recommendations mucho appreciated
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Anyway saw an ad for a dell which looked to be good, but it has a "centrino" processor, would this type be adequate for what what I'm doing, and what'd the main differince a pentium 4, a celeron and a centrino?

Tom Dunne

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:

Anyway saw an ad for a dell which looked to be good, but it has a "centrino" processor, would this type be adequate for what what I'm doing, and what'd the main differince a pentium 4, a celeron and a centrino?

Pentium 4 = designed for desktops, maximum processing power, maximum electricity used (so crap for laptops, erm, even though I have one in my laptop. I get 5 mins out of my battery ).

Centrino = Mobile pentium processors optimised for conserving power, therefore best for laptops. Also pretty powerful from a processing perspective too. Comes with WiFi chipset.

Celeron = budget end of the market. Lower spec processing power, higher power drain, but there are newer Celeron M's around which should improve battery life that tiny bit.

TBH, Dell have what you are looking for.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Hey, very helpful, cheers

conzy

Look at the laptop in ALDI this week, its great for the price, very portable, Freat battery life with the AMD Turion

Its around 1000