Sempron VS Core Duo battery life

DoubleCheese · 9 Nov 2007 at 10:35

I'm speccing up a few laptops for work and the contenders are a Dell Vostro 1000 and a Lenovo N200. The budget is about £300-350 ex VAT each. Once the operating system and battery (Win XP Pro and 9 Cell Li-Ion) are specced up the Dell comes in £40 cheaper than the Lenovo but it has a Sempron 3600+ CPU and 60Gb HDD vs the 1.7Ghz Core Duo and 120GB HDD in the Lenovo. Both have 1GB RAM, XP Pro, wireless LAN, 15.4" display and 4 USB ports, but the Lenovo has a 5in1 card reader and fingerprint scanner too.

In everyday performance is there anything between the two? They will both be used in the field so battery life is important.

Any other units I should consider?

TheVoice · 9 Nov 2007 at 10:48

I'd imagine the Core Duo will be the better of the two. That said, given your budget, you could easily get the Athlon64/Turion64 based Vostros for just a bit more.

DoubleCheese · 9 Nov 2007 at 12:31

Thanks for the tip, the Vostro 1000 with Athlon X2 TK55 works out better actually! With the 9Cell (85Wh) battery what should I expect in battery life? 2hrs?

lay-z-boy · 9 Nov 2007 at 18:05

Dell claim 5.5 hours with the 1501, which is the vostro 1000 in a slightly re-designed inspiron 6000 case.
I assume that is with the Athlon 64 X2 processor.