| CPUs Turion, Celeron, Sempron
My opinion is that Rule 1 of purchasing a computer of any sort is do not buy anything with either an Intel CELERON or an AMD SEMPRON. Both are designed to be used on the lowest cost, entry level computers. In very general terms they less than full processors. The chip will based on the full model but have certain features disabled (cache, math processing,etc -it varies by model). It is a good way for the chip mfg to use chips that don't pass quality control checks that would enable them to be full TURIONs or CORE DUOs.
AMDs generally sell at a bit of a discount to their processing capabilities due to market perceptions of inferiority. Both AMD and Intel have numerous chips that compete directly against each other at different price points.
The most currently available CORE DUOs would be T9300 (?), though the T8100 is more common and affordable, the minimum I would consider purchasing would be T2600 (an older model).
The AMDs TL-60 & TL-58 are the more common more recent chips in mainstream laptops. I do not know enough to venture what a suitable slightly older AMD would still be acceptable. |