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presario M2000 or R3000z

Mar 21, 2005 3:15PM PST

Please help me do decide which notebook to buy

R3000Z

AMD Athlon(TM) XP-M 3000+ (1.60 GHz/256K L2 cache)
15.0" TFT XGA (1024 x 76Cool
64MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 4 440 Go + 1394
512MB DDR SDRAM (2x256MB)
40 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive
DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
Built in 56K Modem+10/100 LAN
8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

or M2000

Intel(R) Celeron(R) M 370 (1.5 GHz) 1MB L2 cache
15.0" TFT XGA (1024x76Cool
512MB DDR SDRAM (2x256MB)
40 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive
DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Integrated 56K Modem + 10/100 Ethernet LAN
6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

Both are 800$ in this configuration .M2000 is new model and better looking in my opinion The difference is in processor and graphic card on first look.

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