I'm looking to buy a budget laptop. I'm replacing my old Pentium 4 desktop. I don't do high-end graphics work - mostly web, MS Office, some database work. No CAD or gaming.
I found a Compaq system in Staples for $399 on sale. It has only 1GB of RAM, but I'd replace that. I thought it had a Turion CPU; after I bought it, I realized that it has an Athlon 64 X2 CPU. I'm thinking of returning it. Is there a significant difference between the Athlon and Turion in terms of performance, battery life, etc? I remember the Athlon (or was it the Sempron?) as AMD's equivalent of the Celeron, but it's a dual core chip now, although it only has 512MB of L2 cache.
The GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce 7000M, with integrated memory up to 286MB.
Thanks.
I found a Compaq system in Staples for $399 on sale. It has only 1GB of RAM, but I'd replace that. I thought it had a Turion CPU; after I bought it, I realized that it has an Athlon 64 X2 CPU. I'm thinking of returning it. Is there a significant difference between the Athlon and Turion in terms of performance, battery life, etc? I remember the Athlon (or was it the Sempron?) as AMD's equivalent of the Celeron, but it's a dual core chip now, although it only has 512MB of L2 cache.
The GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce 7000M, with integrated memory up to 286MB.
Thanks.