Compal HGL30 what processor?

I am looking into doing a barebones laptop build, but have been appalled by the prices for processors. The most important factors would be price and power consumption, I want a lot of battery life and I want it cheap(that's why I'm looking at the Compal $$$). I am willing to trade off computing power for low power consumption, I won't be doing CAD work or encoding video. I will be playing games, but from what I have heard from other experiences, and my own experiences, game performance isn't affected much by having the latest processor.

After seeing the 'apples to apples' comparison of different video cards I am lead to think that the graphics card doesn't have much of an effect on power consumption. This was great news and is what made me intrigued by the HGL30. I read up on it and it gets around 3-4 hours battery life with the 9 cell which sounds great to me, but I would like to maximize by price point, while not sacrificing power consumption.


Price points I've found so far are:

Celeron M 410: $53
Core Duo T2300E: $200 (whats the difference? T2300 -T2300E)
Core 2 Duo T5600: $250

Are there other processors that besides the Celeron M, Core Duo, and Core 2 Duo? At what prices? At what power consumption?

 

definately get at least a core duo.

a celeron m isnt a bad processor, but it is many, many generations old, and will not be left in the dust by the sheer power of the CORE processors.

if you can, i would suggest a Core 2 Duo T7200 (or higher) for extra cache, 64bit, and duo core.

 

Did you mean to omit the 'not' that is in bold?

The Celeron M is made on the 65nm process, correct? If it's made using the same size process, I would guess that it isn't many many generations behind the Cores. I don't really know because I can't find any solid benchmarks and listing of when various processors came out and performance gains. I just get a bunch of Intel marketing hype and propaganda when I search for it, not getting much useful information except for how great the new processors are, etc.

 

Actually, the current Celeron M 4 series CPUs are based on the Yonah core, and are quite fast. I would estimate that it has similar performance compared to the Pentium M.

Go with a dual-core processor. The Core 2 Duo T5500 is probably your best bet - it is dual-core and 64-bit.

The T2300 is not sold anymore. The difference between the T2300 and the T2300E is that the T2300E lacks Virtualization, which allows two operating systems to run simultaneously without software emulation. It's not a feature most people are going to use.

Power consumption - the Core 2 Duos obviously use the most power, but I really do not think you should decide on what processor to get by power consumption. Go for the best price/performance. The Core Solo probably consumes a similar amount of power as the Celeron M. Look up the TDPs for the latter two processors, there should be information on Intel's website. There is no difference in battery life between a Core Duo and a Core 2 Duo; the Solo's battery life will probably not be noticeably longer.

 

Chaz thanks for the info.

You say to get a dual core, then in the next paragraph to look into core solos? I know the solos are 'dual core' but they have one core disabled, so I'm not sure what you are saying.

The celeron M is based on the yonah core? Thanks for that info, didn't know that, but figured they were similar based on the 65nm process they both have in common. So what is the disadvantage to getting a much cheaper Centrino M rather than the pricey Core Solo? Is it hotter? Heat is definately an issue because you can't keep a burning hot computer on your lap, it burns. I am still trying to sort through the crap on Intel's site, can't find any useful info about power consumption, TDP, etc.


Are there any benchmark comparisons between these three types of processors?

 

You asked about power consumtion so I gave you some general numbers - the Core Solo probably consumes about what the Celeron does (at full tilt; at idle the Solo will use less for reasons I will state further down the page), and to prove my point that getting a dual-core CPU is the way to go, I said that the battery life with a Core Solo will not be noticeably better than the Core Duos. Therefore, no reason to get a Solo either.

Only the 4xx series are (such as, Celeron M 410) based on the Yonah core; they have a 533MHz FSB and 1MB L2. The older Celeron Ms (3xx series) were based on the Dothan core (Pentium M) and had a 400MHz FSB.

The Core Solo, unlike the Celeron M, has the ability to change its voltage and clockspeed on the fly, which makes the whole laptop cooler and it will also have better battery life. The Celeron M's are crippled in a sense and always run at full clockspeed and voltage.

In all our reviews there are usually some benchmarks so take a look in some of them.