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Subject: Re: Need Advice: Buying a Laptop

Author: Sean Mintz

Date: 05:01:50 01/18/02

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On January 18, 2002 at 06:49:02, Harpo wrote:

>I'd like to keep it under $2,000 and I only need it for chess.  What offers the
>most bang for the buck?
>
>hsn.com is advertising a Compaq AMD Duron 1GHz Notebook with 384RAM, 30GB H -
>drive, DVD/CD-RW for $1,599.  I've never heard of this processor; how would the
>top programs take to it?

Durons are the AMD version of Celerons --- basically a slightly stripped version
of one of their more powerful processors. They are faster in almost everything.
They don't have as good performance as Athlons, but you will still be getting a
good bit of performance.



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