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Laptop CPU pointers please

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I'm looking for a lappie to do general stuff (no powergaming etc)

Can someone give me a rundown of the available CPU's and how they compare as I'm having trouble finding a good site for comparrissons.
I'd like it to be fairly quiet and it will not go out very often.

Thankyou in advance.
 
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coreduo is the main cpu atm. faster your chip the more faster your laptop i guess.
theres a new intel conroe chip coming out for the laptop too. depend if you want to wait or not.
 
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MichaelHo said:
coreduo is the main cpu atm. faster your chip the more faster your laptop i guess.
theres a new intel conroe chip coming out for the laptop too. depend if you want to wait or not.

Merom is the new laptop chip, whilst Conroe is the desktop version (but will be used in some laptops because its cheaper then Merom.)
 
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I'm hoping to buy something S/H if possible thats why I'd like to compare CPU's to see what would give the best price / performance ratio.

Only looking to spend upto £500 really, I'm not looking at newer CPU's at all.

How do the intel and AMD mobile chips compare for instance.
 
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speedyj said:
I'm hoping to buy something S/H if possible thats why I'd like to compare CPU's to see what would give the best price / performance ratio.

Only looking to spend upto £500 really, I'm not looking at newer CPU's at all.

How do the intel and AMD mobile chips compare for instance.

The Turion chips are pretty good, the Athlon 32bit chips weren't amazing, you'd be better off with a Pentium-M based system. Avoid P4-M and Celerons like the plague though.
 
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speedyj said:
I'm hoping to buy something S/H if possible thats why I'd like to compare CPU's to see what would give the best price / performance ratio.

Only looking to spend upto £500 really, I'm not looking at newer CPU's at all.

How do the intel and AMD mobile chips compare for instance.

if you can push abit more you can get a new macbook for £663
 
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