Which CPU for a notebook?

[bsquirle]

Hi,

I want to buy a notebook.

But I don't have much money :( .

So what will be the best??

A notebook with an AMD or a Celeron processor?

The notebook will be used to do the following:

- Programming

- Testing Programs

- Text Processing (mainly Word, Excell and Powerpoint)

Batterylife doesn't matter, I just want to have the best preformance.

(Feel free to dicuss the Pro's and the contra's here.)

[Xer34]

Definately AMD's.. a 1.4 duron whipped the 2.2 celeron.. trust me i got em.. they blow

[rstroud]

I'm the proud owner of a Dell Inspirion 1100 Notebook. It has a Celeron 2.0...let me tell you something. Go with an AMD processor, they're MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH faster than any Celeron. I bought mine just so I could word process on the go. But you want performance, and the Celeron's L2 cache is so crippled, I wouldn't even bother with it. So my vote is AMD. Of course, I do favor AMD, but the Celeron was soooo cheap, I had to. Don't listen to the Intel Fanboys that say the Celeron is better: it's not. You're better off with an Athlon XP or XP-M processor.

[rstroud]

Who voted for the Celeron? They STINK!

[Xer34]

celerons definately suck.. but yeah they are cheap as hell

[Hypoxiaicon]

AMD,

My fiancee has a AMD Duron 1400 and it doesn the job very good :)

[MegaManXcalibur]

I'm going to say AMD, since I'm not a fan of the Celeron.

[BxBoy]

AMD is much better than Celeron. Avoid Celeron @ All Cost!

[OptiPlex]

If I wanted to get a notebook, I get P-M ...

But seriously, avoid Celercrap processors! THEY R TEGH CRAP! And this is coming from a die hard Intel fan! :blink:

[Dan.Varga]

Ya im in the process of buying a notebook computer as well but i believe im gonna go with the M675XL from Gateway ... 3.2Ghz P4 ... but to get back to the topic ... AMD all the way .... Celerons are just crap in my opinion ....

[isus]

you should get that new intel chip... the centrino... it's a lower clock speed, but i think in benchmarks it beat many of its competitors. personally, i would never buy an intel powered anything, i would get an amd... they have really proven themselves with the athlon xp and athlon64.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Batterylife doesn't matter, I just want to have the best preformance.

Best performance: Pentium M (BANIAS)

Someone can post a review link but it's one of those processors where a 1.6GHz Pentium M is faster than a mobile Pentium 4 at 2.4GHz. Or something to that effect anyway. It's faster than a Pentium 4M and it uses less battery too. It is also supposed to pull in some huge SETI@Home numbers compared to the Pentium 4 desktop and the AMD Athlon XP.

Although the Centrino Mobile Technology needs to be updated to 802.11g before it's sexy again.

http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030205/

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800

What will be REALLY cool is the forthcoming DOTHAN Pentium Ms at 2GHz with 2MB cache. They should be coming soonish.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10388

[Veedems Veteran]

Shame you can't get the Pentium M

[episode]

Actually its the PM 1.3 that beats the 2.4 P4M. You can almost double the PM's clockspeed to relate it to the P4M.

[bsquirle]

hmm, thx for the information!

I think I'm gonna look after an AMD :)

[Kasteo]

If I had enough money I would go with AMD AthlonXP-M for sure, but Celeron laptop is so so cheap. I got my 2.4 Celeron for only $499 AR. The cheapest AMD laptop will start at around $900.

[Galley]

It's spelled "CRAPeron"!

[threetonesun]

Celerons are bad news. Are the mobile ones the same as the old desktop ones, where the poorly performing chips get labeled as Celerons?

I'm an AMD fan all the way.