On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, chinna wrote: > > Hi Guyz, > > Can anyone guide for buying a laptop. actually i saw a model in HP . > > I m gonna use my laptop for games,movies,internet etc.. in equal proportions > > Specs: > > HP DV6 model > AMD Turion? X2 Ultra Dual-Core4gb RAM > 1gb ATI graphic card > > AMD saves some bucks as well > I mainly want to know about AMD performance ,is it really worth going wid AMD > processor or better go for Intel core2 duo(P8600) (provided by dell studio > model). > > i wanna know performance,usage,stability etc key points of both the > processors and finally which one shud i prefer? > > Thanks in advance > Hari >
Don't buy HP/Compaq laptops. They ship with US Trashcom (aka Broadcom) chipsets which donot work with BSD or Linux. WiFi becomes a very big challenge. Developers time and again have written to Broadcom to make the specs available, but Broadcom hasn't bothered. Now consider Realtek which has all open specs on its website, you can go and download the specs or driver. Thats why Realtek is so popular and has a stronger market share. The nice thing is that today's economic situation has created better innovators from APAC eg. Acer. Acer aspire One series of Netbooks come with laptop capabilities and use 'Atheros' wifi chipset which has open specs and the current distros work fine (openSUSE 11, Linux 2.6.26+) Similarly you can give Dell a miss too. You end up paying for the brand with no additional value. NETBOOKs are the way to go and not laptops. + 6+ hrs of battery time + easy to carry like book + same hardware as laptop (chipset) + little heating + light weight, no DVD drive (need to connect external one)` + 2GB DDR2 RAM + price 20,000 - 23,000 Both nVidia and ATI Radeon based graphics cards/chipsets are doing quite well and expect to see how multimedia experience. Regarding processors, the real place to think about is . very small - mobile - ARM . very large - server - AMD64, PPC64 In desktop space it is more marketing gimmick that influences the customer and so i reserve my observations. My suggestion: only go for Celeron. surprised ? thanks Saifi.
