Need 12"/13" laptop, £400ish suggestions?

thelawnet

As per title, had enough of the 10" underpowered Atom with stupid low-resolutio (1024x600) screen, would like a CULV 12" or 13" laptop, any good deals? Obv. still looking for something fairly sleek/lightweight

Hammyman

The last 12.1" CULV laptop I sold was a 3 year old Toshiba Portege R500. New price was over £1500, I sold it for £350 . Same story with the Thinkpad X200s although I usually get around £500 for those.

Acer and Toshiba have some but they're £500+ and at that low rent price, I think I'd be looking for a used Thinkpad x200s as its built far better.

thelawnet

I'm considering the Samsung x120 with dual core SU4100 and 3GB RAM, seems like a good deal for £250. Only problem is the battery life, but to beat I think I'll have to spend a lot more.

Hammyman

thelawnet wrote: »

I'm considering the Samsung x120 with dual core SU4100 and 3GB RAM, seems like a good deal for £250. Only problem is the battery life, but to beat I think I'll have to spend a lot more.

That one isn't dual core and only has 1MB of L2 Cache. The one with the dual core and 3MB of L2 Cache is the one with the SU7300 CPU.

thelawnet

Hammyman wrote: »

That one isn't dual core and only has 1MB of L2 Cache. The one with the dual core and 3MB of L2 Cache is the one with the SU7300 CPU.

No that's not right.
The Penryn ULV chips differ as follows:

Celeron - 1MB L2 cache - vt disabled
Pentium - 2MB L2 cache - vt disabled
Core 2 Solo and Duo - 3MB L2 cache - vt enabled

The Core 2 Solos all have 1 core, and the Duos all have 2 cores, but the Pentiums and Celerons are both 1 and 2 core.

All the ULV chips begin SU, with the exception of the Celeron 7xx series.

The Pentium Penryn ULV lineup consists of the SU2xxx with 1 core and the SU4xxx with 2 cores. The corresponding Celeron chips are the 7xx (single core) and the SU2xxx (dual core) - the Celeron SU2xxx actually matches the Pentium SU4xxx.

The SU7300 (Core 2 Duo brand) differs from the SU4100 (Pentium brand) only in having 3MB of cache instead of 2MB and supporting vt.