There is a great deal on a laptop at Fry’s electronics with an 333mhz AMD Turion 64 processor and I’m wondering if it’s a good computer or not. I usually only trust anything Intel Pentium but I have been in the market for a laptop for so long and am anxious to find one. With laptops being so expensive nowadays I want to get my money’s worth and not pay over $1200 for one that I most likely won’t use all the bells and whistles too. I mainly want a laptop for portability, to access the internet and to do some minor word processing. Email me with possibilities. Thanks.
substance_of_desire
January 20th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Core Duo, by far.
Reasons:
*Better speed-step
*Faster
*Two cores
*Consumes less power
Maurice F
January 21st, 2010 at 4:25 am
While the Turion is a great little CPU, the core duo is better, faster, and more bang for your buck.
mailjunkie123
January 23rd, 2010 at 1:13 am
AMD *****…they clock the speed…therefore making your system unstable….
Get the Pentium….
You do get what you pay for….Toshiba has been the number one laptop for a couple of years now….my friend mainly fixes alot of e-machines, Dells, HP’s, and Compaqs…..these do **** I’ve known to many people with problems with those…
Shawn H
January 24th, 2010 at 4:05 am
The Core Duo is a different processor teechnology so you cannot compare apples to apples. The Intel choice would be the way to go.
perry v
January 26th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
If you only do the things you tell us I would recommend a secondhand one since its overkill to buy yourself a up to date laptop.
An Apple G4 would be a great machine.
Cheers
Zack
January 30th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Don’t get anything with AMD!!! Always INTEL!!!! Intel is much faster!!!! by comparison… definitley get the duo core!!
TechInsider
January 31st, 2010 at 5:12 am
An AMD Turlon 64 is a fairly old design, in computing terms, roughly equivalent to the Pentium 4M designs of late 05/early 06. Turlon 64 CPUs are the ‘previous generation’ notebook processor, and were replaced in (was it April?) 2006, by the Turlon 64 X2 line.
Turlon 64 cpus were a high value bang-for-the-buck in their day, but they’re a little dated here in Jan 07′. Still, for your stated purposes (general portability, Internet/Browsing, and Word Processing), these are good-performing CPUs and very good values for your limited budget.
Turlon 64s will run WinXP very well (like all newer CPUs will these days), and the performance gains from the far more powerful Intel Core processors are not justified by your stated purposes or budget.
You’ll enjoy more consistent performance by choosing a system w/ 1GB or more of memory and a quick hard drive.
AMD’s website shows these systems for comparison:
Enjoy!
-TI
Benjamin Dela Paz
February 1st, 2010 at 3:59 pm
duo core all the way
AMD turion is becoming obsolete and can’t compete with the speeds of the duo core.
aman v
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:02 am
Pentium Duo Core Processor is the best