Intel Vs AMD

daysieblue

Hi

I was wondering if I could get a quick bit of advice. We are looking to pick up a cheap-ish Laptop in the sales, and have seen a good one, HP, 17" and plenty of spec with a big £200 reduction, but it has an AMD processor. Not knowing much about these things, I know that Intel is huge and everyone seems to recommend them. Would I be a fool to buy an AMD processor? It was a silver 64 x2 (I think). It's basically to do a bit of surfing, maybe some downloads and running some spreadsheets.

Sorry if this is a really dumb question!

thanks

db xx

Reluctant_spender

It's a bit hard on the description provided - but I would suggest that it should be able to cope with what you want it to do.

Which model and where and how much?

Jake'sGran

Wish I had some Intel shares! I have always thought that I would only buy any kind of computer if it had Intel but someone on here will know better than me.

HugoSP

I have an AMD Turion 64 x 2 processor and it very good. IIRC it is equivilent to the upper end of Intel in terms of performance. There are differences in the way they work and some process date in a different way to others but I am assured that most users will not know the difference between one and the other.

I used to be very suspicous of anything other than Intel but both our laptops are AMD processors, as was the one that has been replaced. No complaints from our house. They even run the Sims 2 without problems

daysieblue

Thanks for the replies this is the laptop http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0022634883.1198772065@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdgaddmlfmfheecflgceggdhhmdfof.0&page=Product&sku=804564

but don't all dash out and get one before I do!

reluctant_spender - what do you think?

BigBouncyBall

short answer is, AMD is fine for most purposes. If you needed to run high end apps or need to make the most of the very powerful chips intel are now producing then it has to be intel.

AMD will be absolutely fine for the tasks you state. In fact there are other things other than processor that are more important in these tasks such as RAM - get as much as possible!

HugoSP

Daysie

That is almost exactly the same laptop I am typing on now!

It is excellent. Mine even has remote control for watching DVDs. I absolutely love it.

Mine was priced at £599 from PC World, who are under the same ownership as Currys, so £499 is not bad.

If you go via quidco you get 5% cashback.

When you get it, buy some blank DVDs and create a recovery disk. You don't get recovery disks with it but you have the option of creating your own.

I say DVDs because you only need 1 or 2 of these - you would need 9 CDs to achieve the same task in CDs

sidthesexist

Should be fine for surfing and basic office work, however if you intend playing any decent 3d games or video encodeing ect i would go for a C2D intel instead

planemad

Cheaper here: http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/dix_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1096406452.1198775068@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddmlkfhhhgcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&pageFrom=SimpleSearchProducts&page=Product&sku=804564

Using below codes:

• £20 OFF orders over £499 using code JAN20 until 31st January 2008.
• £10 OFF orders over £249 using code JAN10 until 31st January 2008.
• 5% OFF orders over £399 using code GIMME5. Code expiry date unknown.

HugoSP

planemad wrote: »

Cheaper here: http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/dix_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1096406452.1198775068@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddmlkfhhhgcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&pageFrom=SimpleSearchProducts&page=Product&sku=804564

Using below codes:

• £20 OFF orders over £499 using code JAN20 until 31st January 2008.
• £10 OFF orders over £249 using code JAN10 until 31st January 2008.
• 5% OFF orders over £399 using code GIMME5. Code expiry date unknown.

..and use quidco as well for an extra 3%??

Reluctant_spender

Computer looks good. the good thing is that you have 2gb of ram which is vital for Vista.