As nice as that AMD quad core sounds it is a battery hog. The i3 would be the better way to go. Asus are very good laptops in terms of build, at least, the ones I have seen in person.
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The specs are mouth watering
i3 370 M with Intel GMA vs AMD A6 with HD6650 .
However in the money saved with the i3 ,i can upgrade to 6/8 GB RAM.
I thought Multi-core CPU's have lower battery consumption
Technically both have 35 W TDP .
Last edited by Tresezk; October 17th, 2011 at 10:53 AM.
Speaking for myself I tend to prefer Intel chipsets over AMD. As such I'm leaning towards the Core I3.
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The best way to increase speed in virtually any laptop is a faster hard drive. Most cases, 4GB RAM is enough, really depends on your needs so I can't say. However, most laptops come with 5400rpm spinners and that is the main bottleneck. I mentioned before I have a AMD C-50 which is only dual-core 1.0GHz in a 11" laptop. Boot time was about 50secs with the Toshiba spinner, I bought an Intel 3rd gen SSD, boot time is 18secs. Only 2GB RAM and for what I do seems to be working out.
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i3? Pretty weak. Depends what you are using it for I guess. If you are just surfing the net, emailing, work stuff thats fine. If you are doing bigger things like HD video work, graphics and photos, will need something much better.
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Now whats the difference between i3 and i5 series technically and the effect on the battery .
Now I am super confused with lot of options . Head is spinning with options .
i3 performance is quite satisfactory in my opinion .
Also the difference between and i3 2nd generation and i5 first generation
I'd go with a slower CPU and a faster hard drive every time, even in a desktop.
Haha .You say that all over the Computers and IT forum .
The problem is SSDs are exorbitantly priced currently in my part of world . Even importing it is out of question currently .The SSD market has not opened up .
For the price of one 160GB SSD I could get a AMD C-50 based Laptop/Netbook and 8GB RAM + 1TB external HDD.
So I am waiting for the market to open up to buy an SSD .I can live with 40 second boot time and the performance bottleneck which comes with HDDs.
I actually wanted to upgrade my desktop but decided for a mobile device since I am spending much time on Linux .
You don't have to get a SSD A 7200rpm drive such as the WD Black series is currently the fastest spinner out there, a 500GB version is only $80 CDN. They come in 320 and 750GB sizes as well. I'd get an i3 based laptop and the above HDD.
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Whats your budget and again, what are you looking to do with this?
It's roughly 500$ +/- 150$ .I plan on some programming ,and some CPU intensive tasks . Occasionally I will uses VM's . I will be running Linux Mint primarily .
The i3 is fast enough, you already have the 7200rpm drive included, how much memory? At boot Mint 11 uses about 400-500MB so if you have 4GB RAM that is more than likely enough. If you are going to run 3 or more VMs at the same time, then get more RAM.
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A 7200rpm drive such as the WD Black series is currently the fastest spinner out there, a 500GB version is only $80 CDN. They come in 320 and 750GB sizes as well. I'd get an i3 based laptop and the above HDD.
