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[hotel21]

New day, new set of challenges.....

It would appear that H21-jnr wishes to lay claim to my lappy for use by him whilst out and about at work.  Basic notetaking, some spreadsheet input and sometime office use as and when required.  Will do the ram upgrade for it and that should sort him out.

That leaves me....

Whats the general 'pecking order' of the various processors as in i3-350M, i3-330M, P6100, etc etc?  Was quite straightforward in the days of the 386/486 !!   

[Kevin Wood]

This might be some help in understanding Intel's obfuscated product naming..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core

Kevin

[cem_devecioglu]

how they say :

"a chain is as strong as iits weakest ....."

I would start with that
http://www.solidstatesata.co.uk/

[TheBoy]

H21 - as Intel move over to the new i3/5/7 designations, there are a few bargains to be had on Core2 chips. I'd avoid the Pentium Dual Core chips, as they are getting a bit long in the tooth, but Core2 Duo is still a very usable chip (I am typing on a Core2 Duo now). 2Gb RAM, Centrino type chipset (965 or Series4), and for you, integrated graphics, such as Intel X4500.

Feel free to pm me anything you like the look of, I'll happily cast my eye over it.

If it comes with Vista, worth bugetting for a copy of Win7 - Win7 runs much better on a laptop than Vista.

[Kneepad]

If you decide to go down the memory upgrade path then there is no point in buying 4GB and discarding the 1GB that you already have.

You will be running a 32bit operating system which will only make use of 3GB at the most.

So keep the memory that you have, assuming it's a single 1GB chip and not 2 x 512MB, and buy a single 2GB chip. This will cost about £20 and give you the 3Gig that you need.

Avoid Crucial memory chips, I've had to return more faulty ones than I care to remember.

This is what you need:
200 Pin SO DIMM DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz
2Gb £18.99 + vat

Recommend: http://mrmemory.co.uk

[cem_devecioglu]

unless you are using autocad, games-simulation software or large chunks of database cache you will probably never see a full memory load even with 2 gbs..  in either case your most slow hardware and the limiting factor will be the disks mostly running at 5400 rpm or max 7200 which is as slow as a turtle compared to cpu's..