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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