Re: Laptop processor

And why should the OP even care about the AMD Turion? Why should anyone else
care about it? Why should we care about Windows Vista which is far away from
release? Why should we care about the 64-bit flavor of Windows Vista?

For Pete's sake, the OP made a simple request about running a notebook computer
with today's software... Ben Myers

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:10:07 GMT, "NoNoBadDog!" <no_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The current high end processor of choice is the AMD Turion64 processor.
>Anything Intel in a laptop is not ready for Windows Vista. While the
>Pentium M is a capable chip, it is far from the high end. The slowest AMD
>Turion64 processor will be faster than the fastest Pentium M.
>
>Bobby
>
><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>news:4380f5a8.553260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Pentium M is the current notebook processor of choice at the high end. A
>> mobile
>> Celeron is like a Pentium M, but with less external cache memory.
>>
>> Centrino is an Intel brand-name for notebook computers with Pentium M,
>> Intel's
>> wireless chip, and a lot of power-saving techniques built into the design.
>>
>> ... Ben Myers
>>
>> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:17:12 -0500, "Kevin M" <kmisenhxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Hello everyone! I'm 90% decided on buying a Dell Inspiron 6000. I've heard
>>>good things about this machine. I'm a bit unclear on processors. I know
>>>the
>>>difference between a Pentium and a Celeron; however, I'm not sure where
>>>Centrino fits into the picture. Does the 6000 offer this choice?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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