what is the best option in laptops dell, hp, vaio, please tell me.and whats the diference between pentium and double core processor (not technical please)
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dell is the best and you are talking to Natalie that is true i am talking thru dell it lasts longer!
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Dell laptops are worth it if you go with the higher end models. The cheaper models by dell aren't really worth the price, you don't get as  much stuff  as say HP (less ram, smaller harddrive..etc.). You said that the specifications are the same though..so yeah, go with the Dell. Dell computers are real reliable plus the costumer service is great if something does happen. Dude it's a Dell
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I would suggest that you either go for a Dell, HP, or a Toshiba.  Sony Vaio are pretty expensive and the most over-rated laptops.  IBM Thinkpads and Apple iBooks are good on performance, but far too expensive.\n\nI have a Toshiba and I have worked for HP, so I would definitely recommend these.  Toshiba laptops are pretty rugged, quiet, have beautiful screens (among the very best), have terrific multimedia qualities like good speakers, multimedia buttons for playing DVDs without booting the computer, a host of media ports like SD, XD, MMC, Compact Flash (for transferring photos from your digital camera), etc., decent sized keyboards, 100 GB hard drives for storing your data, wireless network adapters, etc.  I haven't had issues with them and the customer support is fantastic!\n\nI would recommedn the Toshiba Satellite series and the HP DV series.\n\nDell lately has been having a lot of problems with their batteries and have been recalling many defective laptops.  My roomies have had problems with brand new Dells too.\n\nFor better reviews and customer ratings visit this website.  It will be a good guide.
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The processor on its own does not make the Laptop the best.  It is the combination of processor, RAM, Disc space for additional RAM and what you intend to do with it!\n\nThe speed of the processor is only good for internal calculations.  The speed is slowed down for display purposes.  See FSB speed.\nHeavy graphics use will also require a good graphics card.
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true indeed, core 2 duo ee rocks nd amd dual cores r much more expensive with lesser performance. i'm sure intels quadcore with shorter pipelines will(or may) outperform amd but u never know whats in store hope 4 the best\ntc lol\nnd beware of the web
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Dell Latitude D420 Dual Core.\n\nGo to the Dell website, build what YOU WANT and get it in four days.  Can't beat it!!!
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r u kidding, a Pentium D is a dual core processor, that means that u have two and i mean two 2.8Ghz processors which equal 5.6Ghz and u can burn ur DVDs and watch ur movies and surf the Internet in the same time because the load is divided between the two processors,go for the Pentium D off course, that if u can Handel it's price\nNote: u will need a different Motherboard if u want to go for dual core
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Get Alienware.....awesome machines....as long as you don't mind spending a little bit more for it. If money is an issue and you want something cheaper, I recommend a Dell. Don't go with Compaq or HP if you can avoid it, they are just proprietary, production machines.
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Personally, I'd go with Centrino (which I believe is now called Pentium M).  I don't believe a Pentium M chip is close to 3.0GHz but there are other benefits aside from the reduced speed of the processor.  The main problems that I have with a P4 chip and any laptop is the amount of heat that is generated and the weak battery life.  A P4 chip wasn't really designed for a laptop unlike Centrino, which Intel designed specifically so that laptops would run longer without as much heat.  I think that's more important.  If you go ahead with the P4 chip, I would definitely make sure that the heat and the low battery life aren't going to be annoyances to you.  There are also more features to Centrino than just these but that's beyond the scope of this question.  Anyhow, most laptops are coming with 512MB RAM, which should be plenty for most common tasks.  If you consider yourself a power user, you may want to go with 1GB.  I'm not too familiar with laptops that come with AMD chips...I've actually never heard of any.  And Pentium is always better than Celeron.
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do not just judge by the looks. first of all if ur looking cheap its:dell. if it can a bit more "complex" it should be toshiba. The Toshiba is one of the leading companies in selling laptops and my self am using a Toshiba satellite P35-S605. it gives me power (3.46Ghz) with pentium 4 processor. If ur looking for quality:Toshiba. If your looking for cheap:dell.
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the last time I compared Dell with other brands it turned out that they were quite expensive, so you might check out the prices first. \n\nIf I were you, I'd go for some advertised computer at your local computer store. You will pay the same price and have the benefit off close support. Comes in handy if you need it...\n\nAny current hardware will do for your purposes; that will be round about 3GHz processor, 512MB ram and approx. 80GB hard disc drive. I personally prefer the "real" Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processors before their lightweight (and cheaper) Intel Celeron or AMD Duron processors.\n\nYou do not need 64 bit, you do not need dual-core. An additional 512MB ram is nice but no necessity, 512MB will do quite well.
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You're buying a loptop, so power use will be important to you. Batteries life is terrible with high power components, including the CPU. \n\n=======\npower\n\nAnd that's the first distinction. The Pentium M was designed for minimum power consumption in a Pentium compatible CPU. So your batteries will last longer. \n\nThe Duo Core CPUs are really two CPU cores in one chip. IF the operating system, and application design (which you can't affect) support them properly, such a CPU can be much faster than a single CPU, all other things being equal. But the Duo Core chips use more power, so your battery life will suffer, all other things being equal. This may be worth it, if you are doing computationally intensive stuff, and if your software / operating system can take advantage of the additional CPU. Otherwise, it will make little difference. \n\n========\ngraphics performance\n\nOne computationally intensive use that's common is gaming. it takes a good deal of effort to calculate color brightness and shading for each pixel in a scene, and there are lots of scenes. In fact, it takes so much computational power that vendors have largely given up on making the CPU 9or CPUs) do it all. Recent graphics schemes, the ones that make game images snap and sparkle, during play require a lot of work from some processing chip. The best of the graphics processor chips have more computational power than nearly all CPUs, and they require comparable electrical power (draining batteries still more quickly). It's this reason that accounts for laptops rarely having cutting age graphics performance or CPU speeds. In particular, the graphics hardware in most laptops has low power needs and is hardly up to recent graphics performance standards. \n\n==============\nCPU architecture differences\n\nAnother issue, which will matter only if your use of the laptop needs it, is differences between various Pentium editions. Intel has added more instructions, and used different internal architectures, as they have designed new CPUs. These include new instructions (the SSE, SSE2, etc groups) and the 64 bit EM64T additions to the basic 32-bit core, in emulation of AMD's Opteron and AthlonFX approaches. But for the moment, until your applications can use those extensions, and until your operating system is fully 64-bit compatible, your EM64T CPU will be running mostly in 32-bit mode. And recent Pentium 4 CPUs have included something called Hyperthreading which speeds up some kinds of programs substantially. And, of course, various Intel CPUs have included more or less fast cache on the CPU chip itself. If this is done sensibly, cache (and more cache) can have dramatic effects on many kinds of program execution speeds.\n\nDepending on detailed comparisons between the CPUs you're considering, some (or none) of these differences between CPUs might be significant to you. See Intel's spec sheets for the CPUs you're looking at for the differences. \n\n\n\nIn your case, since you aren't a gamer, the merely adequate graphics hardware in most laptops will probably be acceptable. Your mention of graphics programming might mean image manipulation, and either CPU should do in that case. Photoshop and similar programs don't have to handle graphic manipulations in real time, and so their demands are much less for satisfactory performance than video (or near video -- such as games) processing. \n\nWord processing simply doesn't have so high requirements. After all, any CPU sits doing nothing for eternities between key presses, even for fast typists. There's lots of available cycles from most any CPU in most any word processing operation. \n\nSo, for you, which would be better? mostly, it depends on the work you'll be doing and the applications with which you'll be doing it. If they can take advantage of the processor features in one or another CPU (not something you can easily find out, probably even from the software de
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Forget the Intel "Core 2 Duo" and look instead to those using the new AMD Turion. If you have the money, have a look at the new Alienware notebooks - Mac has NOTHING which even scratches the surface on these bad-boys (esp if you opt for the 1GB of graphics memory) ...you'll never look back
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core 2 Duo processor is better in some sense as it is more energy efficient thus with the same battery and the same usage, you would be able to use the core2duo laptop for a longer period of time. And also the cache of core2duo is higher. Thus the core2duo is indeed better in some sense. However when it come to performance i do not think there will be a big difference. But if you want a high power machine then go for core2duo. Or if you are on budget then get a core duo one.
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I just bought a new HP dv5030us from Circuit City for $999 after a $200 mail in rebate.  It has an AMD Turion64 processor (2GHz), 1 GB of RAM, 100 GB harddrive, DVD Burner with Lightscribe, and Windows XP Media Center.  The 15.4" WXGA widescreen looks really bright and sharp, too (great for movies).\n\nI've been happy with it so far except that its battery life is not as good as a comparable laptop running the Centrino architecture.\n\nIt has plenty of horsepower for running simple business applications (any modern new laptop will).  If you want to play around with photos, movies, music, etc. then you might want to try out this one due to the XP Media Center operating system.
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well now it seems like dells xps are using like 1.6 dual cores .. i can compete with that easily with my socket 939 athlon 64 3500+ but if it was an intel it would be rated at 3.5ghz .. why i dont know.. if you can go dual core do it. no matter what the speeds are.. im not an intel fan. and personaly.. amd is winning right now.. i would go with amd athlon X2 processors. man are they fast and cool. well i have a p4 in my 2nd computer a dell xps and its 2.0ghz,. the dual core would bechmark higher by a mile.. the dual cores are out now. just kinda expensive!
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Dell is great! I have a Dell Inspiron and i love it!!!