Can't decide between dell e1505 and Acer Ferrari 4006.I need your opinions!

All that matters is whether or not you're going to game or multi-task. Acer owns the Dell on the gaming, but the Dell should be better at multi-tasking. I'm honestly surprised that the e1505 costs as much as the Ferrari in your country, in the US it's much cheaper.

isn't Due is better for gaming than the AMD?

Indeed. I would say the T2500 he has slected there will beat the 2.2 Turion...

You know there is a $750 coupon from dell that expires today?....or...was it yesterday ?

So?

Don't get sucked into the numbers game - architecture plays the biggest part, and even without a higher FSB, the Duo still performs better.

This will be a tough decision since each notebook has it's own strengths.

Gameing:
The Ferrari 4006 has the ATI x700 gpu while the Dell e1505 has the ATI x1400 gpu. If you do your homework you'll find out that the x700 is the higher end card even though it came out earlier than the x1400. With double the number of pipelines than the x1400, the x700 will still beat the newer x1400 card in all real life and benchmark gameing apps.

Winner = Ferrari

Multitasking:
The Core Duo wins. Hands down, two cores are always better than one WHEN the applications are written to take advantage the two built in cores. In general your performance gain will vary if the programs haven't been optimized for dual core execution.

Winner = Dell

Durability:
Both Dell and Acer both use a mostly plastic outher case with an aluminum frame inside for added strength. Acer goes an extra step with the carbon fiber lid in the Ferrari 4000 series. The carbon fiber takes a little weight off the design and adds a lot of strength to the lid protecting the lcd better. The Ferrari also has a rubberized feel to the palmrests that is pleasing to the touch. Since the Ferrari is Acer's flagship notebook, more care was put into the design.

Winner = Ferrari

FutureProof:
This is a toss up. 64bit applications still aren't main stream and won't be for a while. The core Duo give you a more tangible benefit now but it's only 32 bit cpu. Depending on how things go, 64bit might still be a non issue 5 years from now or there could be a a development drive to 64 bit in the next 2 years when Vista comes out. You also have the option to upgrade the core Duo to the core 2 Duo which is 64bit in the future if you take the Dell.

Winner = ???

Closing:
Both notebooks are excellent for mobile productivity. If you multitask intensive applications a lot then take the Dell with the core Duo. If you game and mostly stick to a few applications at a time then take the Ferrari.

so if you gaming while transcoding an avi file to dvd format would that be multitasking or gaming?

while having some other stuff in the background

which one ?

He means purchasing a Merom core based CPU a few months later, and install it in your laptop. Merom will support x86_64, SSE4, and a host of other features. Flashing any CPU would not change its functionality; in some rare cases, if the CPU has some functionality that's been disabled , and can be brought back by a pin mod. But 64bit register file and execution engiene is certainly not one of them. Other features could be disabled by a cut somewhere on the die logic; but nothing the consumer can do would be able to bring that back; a good example would be the unlocked CPU frequency multiplier is disabled by such a mechanism, on a number of different CPU families today.

x700 vs. x1400

Hi!!

I would think before saying that x700 is that much better than x1400. First of all, because the x1400 is more compatible with latest shading technology. And there are other differences like 128-bit dual-channel DDR1/DDR2/GDDR3 memory support for x700 and 128-bit four channel for the x1400. For eg. 3DMark05 would be informative for playing older games. Its hard to predict how they would compare on the newest games. I'm pretty sure x1400 would at be worst be as good as the x700.