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Posted by smiley on February 15, 2008, 12:58 pm
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I am currently a college student and require a laptop. which i would
use for slight gaming purposes such as the sims, rollercoaster tycoon
and ms flight sim and a few others maybe. i will need a harddrive
space of 160gb or more to be able to store photos's, video's, film's
and music on to. i have a few questions to ask before i start looking
1) is a amd better than intel based laptops?
2)which is better a 64mb didicated graphics or a 248mb shared
graphics?
3)Vista or Xp?
thank's i appriciate any help i recieve. i have a maximum budget of
=A3450.
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Posted by Charlie Hoffpauir on February 15, 2008, 3:02 pm
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:58:36 -0800 (PST), smiley
>I am currently a college student and require a laptop. which i would
>use for slight gaming purposes such as the sims, rollercoaster tycoon
>and ms flight sim and a few others maybe. i will need a harddrive
>space of 160gb or more to be able to store photos's, video's, film's
>and music on to. i have a few questions to ask before i start looking
>
My opinions only.....
>1) is a amd better than intel based laptops?
No
>2)which is better a 64mb didicated graphics or a 248mb shared
>graphics?
dedicated
>3)Vista or Xp?
>XP
>thank's i appriciate any help i recieve. i have a maximum budget of
>£450.
Get the best Lenovo that you can afford.
My first recommendation is that as a college student, you should get a
spell checker; and get a laptop with a shift key.
--
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
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Posted by smiley on February 15, 2008, 3:32 pm
Please log in for more thread options So what makes the intel processors better? I understand that they are
more prone to virus attacks allthough maybe slightly faster, but would
i notice the speed issues for word documents or web browsing?
I see where your comming from in saying that xp is better than vista
but the Service pack 1 is coming out soon for vista which i imaging
would improve Vista's performance, also software manufacorers are now
beguinning to build their software to the Vista archutector so
wouldn't choosing Vista make me future proof?
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Posted by Charlie Hoffpauir on February 16, 2008, 2:25 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:32:09 -0800 (PST), smiley
>So what makes the intel processors better? I understand that they are
>more prone to virus attacks allthough maybe slightly faster, but would
>i notice the speed issues for word documents or web browsing?
>
Are you reading the things you write?
You asked if AMD was better than Intel based laptops. To this question
I replied no. I didn't say that Intel was better, just that AMD was
*not* better. IMO they are equivalent... some features as implemented
in some laptops result in a better laptop with an AMD processor,
others in a better Intel based laptop. Since my preference in laptops
is essentially Lenovo (formerly IBM Thinkpads), and they only came
Intel based, I said AMD was not *better*.
And what makes you think there are any virus that attack *hardware*?
Any I've ever haeard of only attack software.
>I see where your comming from in saying that xp is better than vista
>but the Service pack 1 is coming out soon for vista which i imaging
>would improve Vista's performance, also software manufacorers are now
>beguinning to build their software to the Vista archutector so
>wouldn't choosing Vista make me future proof?
Well, if you're sure of that, then why ask anyone else?
You certainly don't have to take my advice, after all, it's only worth
what you paid for it.
--
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
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Posted by Barry Watzman on February 16, 2008, 4:45 pm
Please log in for more thread options Intel's Architecture and manufacturing processes are both more advanced
than AMD's in their better chips (Core 2 Duo).
Intel CPUs and AMD CPUs are EXACTLY the same in terms of virus. There
is NO diference, this is not a function of the CPU.
smiley wrote:
> So what makes the intel processors better? I understand that they are
> more prone to virus attacks allthough maybe slightly faster, but would
> i notice the speed issues for word documents or web browsing?
>
> I see where your comming from in saying that xp is better than vista
> but the Service pack 1 is coming out soon for vista which i imaging
> would improve Vista's performance, also software manufacorers are now
> beguinning to build their software to the Vista archutector so
> wouldn't choosing Vista make me future proof?
>
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