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I am looking at laptops and would like to know the best processor to get, AMD or Intel
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Dollar for dollar it should be close. AMD seems to lead in value but for work we pick up the i5/i7 and don't pay much more.
If you are pushing the price down to the 200 or less range, you are talking value machines. Tell more about what you are shopping for.
Bob
I am looking for a good, fast laptop. I have heard that the i5/i7 are the preferred processors. This will be for home use playing games, e-mail, etc.
Card games, watching videos can be done on those 200ish buck laptops. At the games rev up you are looking at about 1K for a gamer's laptop. http://forums.cnet.com/laptops-forums/gaming-laptops-forum/?tag=TOCleftColumn.0;blankArea.2 has many posts about this area.
For modern gaming, it's not as much the CPU but the GPU. If you can supply a candidate we can find some idea of game performance such as GPU laptop reviews like http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-970M.126694.0.html
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