-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Laptop recommendations
- From: "Larry Southerland"<larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:17:34 -0400
One other factor to consider: which company is most-likely to continue in
business in the long term. (Look at the AMD's stock over the past year or
so and you may see what I mean.) Even though it may be a little out-of-date
(note that publishers almost always are), PCWorld has some good
recommendations for notebooks under $1,000.00. Since it may be a month or
two behind what is now coming out, they may even be less-expensive now.
You can filter and/or sort the results by price:
http://www.pcworld.com/product/reviewfinder.html?id=6
Hope that this helps...
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Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:36 PM
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Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Laptop recommendations
I'm looking at laptops and would like recommendations on Intel Dual Core 2
chips versus AMD Turion 64X chips, and the new Intel integrated graphics
Express X-3100 versus ATI Radeon 1250 or 1270, which comes on all AMD
machines since AMD owns ATI. I've heard in the past that Intel integrated
graphics suck for gamers, but I'm hearing better news about the newest
X-3100. But, someone I know personally who has an AMD told me he would pay
more for the Intel for the following reasons (quoting him):
<1. When the Intel CPU gets hot it slows down (and sometimes stops
depending on how hot the chip gets.) The circuitry is built into the chip.
When the AMD get hot it slows down, but the circuitry is built into the
mainboard.
2. The Intel CPU will go into the idle mode when it is not being used.
If you leave the computer on all night not being used, in the morning the
computer will feel cool. The AMD doesn't know what idle is. It runs full
speed all the time. If you leave the computer on all night not being used,
the computer will be just as hot in the morning as it was when you were
using it.>
I've never owned AMD and have no personal experience with it. Does anyone
agree with the above? Yes, I would prefer a super high end laptop with an
nVidia graphics card, but a laptop is not my main computer, nor do I foresee
that it ever will be, so I'm looking to pay under $1000, but above the bare
bottom low end. I won't be using it every day. I need it to carry my
genealogy files, I'm not a gamer, but I am into graphically intense
activities using Photo Shop Elements and Paint Shop Pro. I've gone into
the store and looked, and quite a few of them had very warm keypads after
being on all day, but I couldn't necessarily narrow this down to the type of
chip that was in it.
Thanks! : )
dj
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