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Which notebook cpu?

|Ric| said:
well I think the dell laptops I am looking at atm are the best priced I have found. For £499 I can 1 gig ram and pentium m or 512 ram and core duo.

The core duo is probably the most appealing, 512 ram is more than enough for day to day business and it can be upgraded more easily than the cpu.

Ric.
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well you might notice you can get 512 mb so-dimm for almost nothing, VERy cheap, where as possibly some well known self configure sites you can buy laptops would add something like £140 to add in a 515mb stick, you can probo get them and install them for like £30 or so (haven't checked, guestimate). memory installation on most laptops is stupidly easy. most laptops are designed with removeable(couple screws) access to memory, cpu and hdd sections, so would be a case of buying mem, unscrewing a tiny panel, sliding mem in, done.

core duo will be EASILy the better option as it will hold its value far far better. with vista coming, multithreaded apps becoming more common, having twice the cpu power in a year will make it far more valuable.
 
Yeh I'm aware how easy it is to upgrade the memory :D. I wasn't seriosuly suggesting that I would buy the laptop with 1 gig ram and try and upgrade the CPU ;)
I hadn't actually appreciated it was so cheap, of course if they decide to use 2*256 then that makes it some what more expensive to get a gig.
 
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