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Which Laptop is best? (3 choices)

kanoobie

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I am familiar with PCs, but laptops are a different case. Recently, I found 3 laptops and they all have practically the same specs: 2GB RAM; Vista Home Premium; 160GB HD; initigrated graphics; 15.4 inch lcd, but each one has a different processor.

The three processors are: Turionx2 TL56
T2450
T5500

All 3 notebooks go for around $700-750

My choices are between Gateway and Acer. Which processor and laptop brand would you recommend?
Thanks!
 
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_mobile.html

Definitely the intel ones , but which :

1_T5500 is a Core2Duo processors which is 64bit and is clocked @ 1.6
2_T2450 is a CoreDuo processor which isnt 64bit and is clocked @ 2.0

so its up to u , if u dont want to go with 64bit OS ,then get T2450 its 400MHZ faster and thats noticeable