Hi, On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:30 PM, G Karunakar <indli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Gaurav Pant <gaurav...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello people, > >> > >> I am looking forward to buying laptops around 20K. The online shopping > sites > >> are having many of them having AMD Kabini processor having speeds of 1 > GHz > >> to 1.5 GHz. > >> > >> Also loads of P4 and Celeron dual core stuff is out there. > >> > >> What are your reviews if you have used the same. > >> > >> My main purpose will be Running a LAMP set-up (XFCE type desktop). > (MySQL > >> and Apache will be started when needed). > >> > >> Majority of the time it will be a Mozilla Firefox with around 5-8 tabs > open. > >> > >> considering a laptop life of around 3 years (any thing more than that > will > >> be bonus period) I am not interested in spending any more than 20-22K > INR. > >> > > > > > > I have Thinkpad x120e (11.6" screen) which has AMD APU E350 (low end > > compared to Kabini ones), with 4GB RAM. Found this good enough for > > multi purpose use, doing all above without much of cpu load factor. > > Any dual core cpu or APU outperforming a E350 , I would say is worth > > it. > > > > Online shopping sites give you enough to sort the models, but some > suggestions: > > - see that you can add more ram (there should be extra slot - some > > sub 20K ones have only 1 slot and not configurable) > > - 6 cell battery > > - HDD replacable - ie you can change without voiding warranty. You > > may later want to put in a SSD which will easily double the speed. > > - if possible screen size 14" or less > > - would be bonus if it has USB 3.0 ports. > > > > Karunakar > > _______________________________________________ > > plug-mail mailing list > > plug-mail@plug.org.in > > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail > > Even though you may not require virtualisation today, that could be a > requirement anytime soon. > Consider a machine that can give you Virtualisation facilities. The > machines mentioned here may not provide the same. The price will also > increase accordingly. > I was looking at few laptop models and there a lots of Pentium Quad Core models. I checked at intel website and these are supposedly new series of Pentium processors. I could also see that it supports virtualisation (Vtx). here is a link to compare a i3 and PQC http://ark.intel.com/compare/82105,81018,75107 Can any one point out why this processor (PQC) will not be good enough for a regular desktop/internet browsing etc work. Also how does not having hyper-threading effects efficiency of using Linux on the same. -- Gaurav Pant
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