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    Questions about two OLD notebooks

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Neptune2010, Jun 20, 2006.

  1. Neptune2010

    Neptune2010 Newbie

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    i am looking for a budget and old notebook, for my college friend

    There are two:

    athlon XP M 2200+
    512 RAM
    40G HD
    onboard card
    3 hours battery life

    Celeron M 1.4G
    512 RAM
    40G HD
    ATI Radeon 9700
    3 hours battery life

    They come about the same price

    Is it true that athlon XP M 2200+ is better than Celeron M 1.4 in both performance and power saving? sligthly better or much better?

    In terms of gaming ( well I don't mean playing Games like DOOM 4 or The Ender Scroll 4, I mean mainstream games like warcraft 3 ) Do you expect the athlon XP one to handle them well?

    Thanks
     
    Neptune2010, Jun 20, 2006
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  2. Iter

    Iter Notebook Evangelist

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    i think than Celeron M 1.4G with ATI Radeon 9700 would be better than Athlon XP Mobile 2200+. Celeron one have a separated video memory and dedicate video. All the onboard video memory for old model is shared. It will make it a drawback performance.
     
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  3. Tokuman

    Tokuman Notebook Evangelist

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    How much money do you have? I mean, if you had 700 dollors vs 500(both are considered budget) then you would have a totally diferent lappy.

    Dell E1505 - 759.00
    Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2300E (2MB Cache/1.66GHz/667MH
    15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display
    512MB
    Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
    60GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
    24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
     
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  4. Neptune2010

    Neptune2010 Newbie

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    Well， as i said i am buying for my college friend

    also i live in UK, where you wouldn't find anything below 850 dollors from majoy brand companies(believe me!), but i am looking for something between 400~500, so............
     
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  5. Neptune2010

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    OH,Thanks

    I really didn't know that shared GPU memory would pull back the performance。

    btw,could also you answer my first question plz.....thx~~
     
    Neptune2010, Jun 20, 2006
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