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Chip Comparison Question for laptop

Aug 2, 2011 6:54AM PDT

I'm looking at a Toshiba Satelite with an AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M Accelerated Processor 1.64Ghz vs Dell Vostro 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i5-2410M processor 2.30 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.90 GHz.

Both laptops would be running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and have 6mg Ram, 500GB hard drive w AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M (128-bit) 1GB Graphic.

I am concerned that the 1.64Ghz on the Toshiba may be too slow a CPU chip for 64-bit and the AMD Radeon graphics.

My partner willb e using the new laptop for business (MS Office Site for Home and Business Professional, mostly Word, rarely Excel, rarely Outlook - no Access, no Publisher - really no number-crunching or database work. Sometimes she'll play music and watch a video or a DVD.

Also, please feel free to comment on recent Dell Support vs. Toshiba support - or is it all poor nowadays.

Thanks in advance!
Alex

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I have a Dell with some i5 - 460
Aug 2, 2011 7:08AM PDT

And it is very nice. The AMD relies on TRUE CORES so it's fine and all but for my work the i5 units worked better (Visual Studio 2008 and beyond.)

There is ZERO support for software issues so I'm thinking most folk are upset over that. The makers only take on their stuff.
Bob

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Well the thing about
Aug 2, 2011 10:22PM PDT

the AMD is the processor and graphics are both made by AMD so I'm sure the processor is paired with a graphics card with smooth integration. I myself would pick intel over AMD until AMD can prove itself again. Once upon a time AMD made a better mobile processor then Intel but after thr Pentium M Intel has left them i the dust. I'm hearing good things about these Fusion processors but need to be battle tested.