On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:30 PM, G Karunakar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Gaurav Pant <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello people, >> >> I am looking forward to buying laptops around 20K. The online shopping sites >> are having many of them having AMD Kabini processor having speeds of 1 GHz >> to 1.5 GHz. >> >> Also loads of P4 and Celeron dual core stuff is out there. >> >> What are your reviews if you have used the same. >> >> My main purpose will be Running a LAMP set-up (XFCE type desktop). (MySQL >> and Apache will be started when needed). >> >> Majority of the time it will be a Mozilla Firefox with around 5-8 tabs open. >> >> considering a laptop life of around 3 years (any thing more than that will >> be bonus period) I am not interested in spending any more than 20-22K INR. >> > > > I have Thinkpad x120e (11.6" screen) which has AMD APU E350 (low end > compared to Kabini ones), with 4GB RAM. Found this good enough for > multi purpose use, doing all above without much of cpu load factor. > Any dual core cpu or APU outperforming a E350 , I would say is worth > it. > > Online shopping sites give you enough to sort the models, but some > suggestions: > - see that you can add more ram (there should be extra slot - some > sub 20K ones have only 1 slot and not configurable) > - 6 cell battery > - HDD replacable - ie you can change without voiding warranty. You > may later want to put in a SSD which will easily double the speed. > - if possible screen size 14" or less > - would be bonus if it has USB 3.0 ports. > > Karunakar > _______________________________________________ > plug-mail mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
Even though you may not require virtualisation today, that could be a requirement anytime soon. Consider a machine that can give you Virtualisation facilities. The machines mentioned here may not provide the same. The price will also increase accordingly. Regards -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list [email protected] http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
