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I'm going to order a laptop for my Wife

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Here's a fun one, should be simple but interesting. I'm going to order my Wife a Dell laptop. She wants a Dell because they are cute. She is a M.S. Office user and runs QuickBooks and Quicken so she is not in need of a work horse. She does want to stay wireless and is mobile about 8 hours a week. Here are a couple of choices at
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/hot_offers_nb?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

I can get her a Inspiron 1501 (AMD) or a Inspiron 6400 (Intel)

I would like some feed back and possible recommendations.

It would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Callandor

The 6400 has the Core Duo processor, so it will have the best battery life. It's not too bad in the performance department, either.

simpswr

You can almost toss a coin . . either will do what she wants to do with it andmuch more. I have a slight preference for AMD processors, but both are plenty strong and dependable.. Old schoolers will say that Intel is more stable and dependable, but I have not found that to be the case for quite a while now.

jsarinana

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Thanks simpswr, Callandor

I'm an Old-school Intel person myself, I've been an Intel person since the 286 days. But I do have a couple of AMD machines at home and a 12 year old at home thats is a AMD kid or as he would say
"It's all about the AMD Yo!"

I'm still undecided.

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darrenakin

First of all whos TOM? Why dont you go to Intel and AMD and look at the Benchmarks, they speak for themselves, dont take a Bias 3rd party group (like tomshardware.com ) And I believe that is pretty much what I said in a nice way. The reason that the AMD chip is undependable is because it runs HOTTER. And it is a matter of preference, this is still America.