Intel Celeron or AMD Turion for laptop

wazza

thanks but my budget is for £499 and the compaq turion seems a good deal compared to others at pcworld/currys. I am limited to buying from these stores due to gift vouchers given. aaaarrrgghh

Sausage_Roll

CAT-THE-FIFTH wrote:

In terms of processor power -no!!

In terms of battery life -no!

In terms of portability -no!

Also just realised that the Phillips has a faster processor too.

However the Compaq has a much larger screen so it would be better if you need to alot of written work so it probably is better in this regard.

However if you intend to travel with your notebook the Phillips is much better IMHO as lugging around 3kg is NOT much fun!!

Celeron M processor also have shorter battery life than the Pentium M or Core equivalents since they lack most of the power saving technology that the latter have. Cheaper notebooks also tend to have much smaller batteries too!!

Jeez calm down and read again, If you read my post properly you'd see I was comparing between the OP's Laptops.

OP - The packard is usually £499, so still just a £100 difference;)
Taking the turion if you don't particularly need to save is probably a good decision, you'll get more out of it - It has Windows media centre which I find really useful, and the extra space.

PierceUK

check out the HP at Staples for 499 as well. its got a turion processor as well as 1GB of RAM and 80GB harddrive.

raylec

I bought the Acer 5102 below from my local Comet yesterday for my daughter (AMD Turion 64 x2 Dual Core 1.6GHz, 1024 ram, 128 shared graphices, 120Gb hard drive):

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=363286

Haggled for the online price (£479.99), and then paid most of it with Comet vouchers bought with Virgin credit card (13% extra discount).

Total cost to me just under £430

I'm giving the 'free' printer to a charity stall at a Christmas Fair (can't afford the ink!)

Lad

raylec, what are your/your daughter thoughts about the 5102? I was thinking about getting the same laptop. Eg Is the build quality up to scratch, display and sound quality good?

Thanks