Which processor is recomended?

I know this is long and I am asking a lot here, but any help would be
appreciated. Response to any parts of this post will really help me out.

Because I did a oops and damaged my Compaq laptop, I am looking to buy
another laptop by next Tuesday. From what liitle I have found out so far I
think fixing my Compaq is to expensive. I am guessing at least $300 parts
and labor, minimum. I have considered buying used and new.

Among the new ones in a price point I would like to pay are the Celeron with
at 2 gig and an AMD XP at 2100+. Which might be the better for battery life
and the better for performance?

I have built several systems with AMD XP processors but know nothing about
the P4 based Celerons except they seem to be shy of cache memory. I wonder
what performance hit with the P4 based Celeron might occur compared to the
AMD or will I even know the difference on a laptop?

The used Laptops I am looking at are IBM thinkpads. One a PII andother a
PIII It's late, the store is closed, so I can't tell you the model numbers
or prices. Price is about $450-$550 with OS. One has 98 first edition and
another has 2000 pro. Any advice on Thinkpad models to stay away from, or
to grab up would be appreciated. I also have some concern over older
batteries that would come with these units.

My price point is <$900. I will be using the laptop for taking notes at
homeowners board meetings. I am the secratary. I will also do some Web
browsing through home wireless(after buying 802.11b card) My wife will also
use it while traveling to confrences for CASA.

The models I am looking at are a HP Presario 21700US. A Compaq ZE4420US.
Also looking at Toshiba Satellite S127 or the S157. All will be below the
price point I am looking at after rebate. I will also consider others with
similar price and features.

Again, I know I am asking a lot, but any help would be appreciated. I would
have kept the Compaq around a few more years, but something in the
power/battery circuit died when I hooked up a similar looking but wrong
power supply in a darkened room. How it got into the carry bag I don't
know, but the damage is done now. I have taken apart the unit to try to
find any obviously damaged parts, but found none. I have not tried testing
diodes, but then I am not sure how much more work I want to put into a DIY
fix. My post months back about help to fix it did not bring much success of
doing so.

Thaks so very much

Alan in Boise

Alan W. Blackmon <> wrote:
> I know this is long and I am asking a lot here, but any help would be
> appreciated. Response to any parts of this post will really help me out.
>
> Because I did a oops and damaged my Compaq laptop, I am looking to buy
> another laptop by next Tuesday. From what liitle I have found out so far I
> think fixing my Compaq is to expensive. I am guessing at least $300 parts
> and labor, minimum. I have considered buying used and new.

You might also consider ebaying it.
The LCD is probably OK, and it may be a usefull parts machine.

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Do yourself a favor and dont buy a Celeron.........EVER....
You'll thank yourself later.....(I've been doing PC Support and consulting
for 10+years,
and every Celeron I've seen is slow and just frustrating to work on...)
--jmnugent






"Alan W. Blackmon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I know this is long and I am asking a lot here, but any help would be
> appreciated. Response to any parts of this post will really help me out.
>
> Because I did a oops and damaged my Compaq laptop, I am looking to buy
> another laptop by next Tuesday. From what liitle I have found out so far
I
> think fixing my Compaq is to expensive. I am guessing at least $300 parts
> and labor, minimum. I have considered buying used and new.
>
> Among the new ones in a price point I would like to pay are the Celeron
with
> at 2 gig and an AMD XP at 2100+. Which might be the better for battery
life
> and the better for performance?
>
> I have built several systems with AMD XP processors but know nothing
about
> the P4 based Celerons except they seem to be shy of cache memory. I
wonder
> what performance hit with the P4 based Celeron might occur compared to
the
> AMD or will I even know the difference on a laptop?
>
> The used Laptops I am looking at are IBM thinkpads. One a PII andother a
> PIII It's late, the store is closed, so I can't tell you the model
numbers
> or prices. Price is about $450-$550 with OS. One has 98 first edition
and
> another has 2000 pro. Any advice on Thinkpad models to stay away from,
or
> to grab up would be appreciated. I also have some concern over older
> batteries that would come with these units.
>
> My price point is <$900. I will be using the laptop for taking notes at
> homeowners board meetings. I am the secratary. I will also do some Web
> browsing through home wireless(after buying 802.11b card) My wife will
also
> use it while traveling to confrences for CASA.
>
> The models I am looking at are a HP Presario 21700US. A Compaq ZE4420US.
> Also looking at Toshiba Satellite S127 or the S157. All will be below the
> price point I am looking at after rebate. I will also consider others
with
> similar price and features.
>
> Again, I know I am asking a lot, but any help would be appreciated. I
would
> have kept the Compaq around a few more years, but something in the
> power/battery circuit died when I hooked up a similar looking but wrong
> power supply in a darkened room. How it got into the carry bag I don't
> know, but the damage is done now. I have taken apart the unit to try to
> find any obviously damaged parts, but found none. I have not tried
testing
> diodes, but then I am not sure how much more work I want to put into a DIY
> fix. My post months back about help to fix it did not bring much success
of
> doing so.
>
> Thaks so very much
>
> Alan in Boise
>
>

jmnugent <ten.tsacmoc@tnegunmj> wrote:
: Do yourself a favor and dont buy a Celeron.........EVER....
: You'll thank yourself later.....(I've been doing PC Support and consulting
: for 10+years,
: and every Celeron I've seen is slow and just frustrating to work on...)

The Celeron has gotten a bad rap from its early days when it was
pretty dog slow, but the new Celerons seem to be a lot better. The
Mobile Celerons, FYI, seem to have larger caches than the desktop
Celerons - check out the Intel specs on their website.

I have a 2.0GHZ Celeron in my Toshiba 1415 laptop and it works very
well (it's a great laptop, actually). I ran some CPU-intensive RAW
image conversion compared to my P4 1.8GHZ desktop machine and -
surprise - my laptop is slightly faster than the desktop. The laptop
is very snappy and responsive, plenty fast enough for what I do.
Having 512MB of RAM helps.

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a mobile Celeron CPU in a laptop to
anyone, unless you are more concerned with the highest possible
performance than you are with price.

Andrew
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