AMD-based Dell notebooks - interested?
AMD or Intel? Which processor people choose is usually comes down to price and personal choice. Dell hasn't entirely rushed to embrace AMD, but now it has announced two AMD-based notebook lines - ready for the holiday. These notebooks offer power and performance at a reasonable price.
Two new AMD-based notebooks from Dell - the Inspiron 1501 and Latitude 131L.
[poll id=16]Here are the specifications:
Inspiron 1501
- Choice of AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core and Mobile AMD Sempron
- Integrated wireless networking
- 512MB shared memory (upgradable to 2GB)
- 60GB hard drive (upgradable to 120GB)
- Integrated graphics with up to 256 MB of HyperMemory
- 3-in-1 media card reader
- 15.4-inch widescreen display (with optional TrueLife technology)
- Wide-aspect display
Latitude 131L
- Choice of AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core and Mobile AMD Sempron
- Integrated graphics options
- 15.4-inch widescreen display (with optional TrueLife technology)
- Wide-aspect display
- Windows Vista Capable
OK, price. The Turion-based Inspiron starts at $649 while the Sempron-based Inspiron is cheaper at $549. Prices for the Turion-based Latitude start at $899 while the Sempron-based models start at $629.
If I was in the market for a laptop (and I was going to buy a Dell - which is unlikely), I'd go with the Latitude, maxing out the RAM and hard disk to all it can take. That's a system that seems future-proof and has enough power to handle pretty much anything you can throw at it (and can run Vista if you want it to).