I'm in the market for a budget laptop under $1100 CDN.
So far my choices are.
HP NX6110 ($1060 CDN)
Intel Celeron M 360J, 1.4 GHz, 1-MB L2
512MB RAM, 60GB HD, DVD/CD-RW, Combo Modem 10/100 NIC, 15" XGA Display, 802.11g wireless, XP Pro
Compaq Presario R3220CA ($1069 CDN)
Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M processor 3000+
512MB DDR SDRAM (2 x 256MB) 333MHz
40GB (4200RPM) Hard Drive
15.4" WXGA High-Definition Widescreen, 24X DVD/CD-RW, High-speed 56K modem and 10/100 BaseT ethernet
NVIDIA GeForce 4 420 32MB graphics card
Acer Aspire 1681LCI ($1150)
Centrino 1.50GHz, 2MB L2 cache
512MB RAM, 60GB HDD
DVD/CD-RW, 15" XGA display, WLAN, LAN, v.92 modem, Win XP Home
It will be used indoor (school & home), so battery life is not that important.
Nothing too intensive, just basic web surfing, word processing, watching movies, listening to music. Right now i'm leaning toward the Compaq Presario R3220CA for the better screen and speakers compare to the Acer.
do listen to alot of music so speaker is very important, that's the only thing holding me back from buying a Acer.
Does anyone knows the performance difference (speed wise), between the Athlon XP-M 3000+ 1.6GHZ 256kb L2 cache vs the Celeron M 360J 1.4ghz 1MB L2 cache? How do they both rank against the Centrino 1.50GHZ 2MB L2 cache?
So far my choices are.
HP NX6110 ($1060 CDN)
Intel Celeron M 360J, 1.4 GHz, 1-MB L2
512MB RAM, 60GB HD, DVD/CD-RW, Combo Modem 10/100 NIC, 15" XGA Display, 802.11g wireless, XP Pro
Compaq Presario R3220CA ($1069 CDN)
Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M processor 3000+
512MB DDR SDRAM (2 x 256MB) 333MHz
40GB (4200RPM) Hard Drive
15.4" WXGA High-Definition Widescreen, 24X DVD/CD-RW, High-speed 56K modem and 10/100 BaseT ethernet
NVIDIA GeForce 4 420 32MB graphics card
Acer Aspire 1681LCI ($1150)
Centrino 1.50GHz, 2MB L2 cache
512MB RAM, 60GB HDD
DVD/CD-RW, 15" XGA display, WLAN, LAN, v.92 modem, Win XP Home
It will be used indoor (school & home), so battery life is not that important.
Nothing too intensive, just basic web surfing, word processing, watching movies, listening to music. Right now i'm leaning toward the Compaq Presario R3220CA for the better screen and speakers compare to the Acer.
do listen to alot of music so speaker is very important, that's the only thing holding me back from buying a Acer.
Does anyone knows the performance difference (speed wise), between the Athlon XP-M 3000+ 1.6GHZ 256kb L2 cache vs the Celeron M 360J 1.4ghz 1MB L2 cache? How do they both rank against the Centrino 1.50GHZ 2MB L2 cache?
