<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sudhanwa.com@gmail.com" target="_blank">sudhanwa.com@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:30 PM, G Karunakar <<a href="mailto:indlinux@gmail.com">indlinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Gaurav Pant <<a href="mailto:gauravggs@gmail.com">gauravggs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hello people,<br>
>><br>
>> I am looking forward to buying laptops around 20K. The online shopping sites<br>
>> are having many of them having AMD Kabini processor having speeds of 1 GHz<br>
>> to 1.5 GHz.<br>
>><br>
>> Also loads of P4 and Celeron dual core stuff is out there.<br>
>><br>
>> What are your reviews if you have used the same.<br>
>><br>
>> My main purpose will be Running a LAMP set-up (XFCE type desktop). (MySQL<br>
>> and Apache will be started when needed).<br>
>><br>
>> Majority of the time it will be a Mozilla Firefox with around 5-8 tabs open.<br>
>><br>
>> considering a laptop life of around 3 years (any thing more than that will<br>
>> be bonus period) I am not interested in spending any more than 20-22K INR.<br>
>><br>
><br>
><br>
> I have Thinkpad x120e (11.6" screen) which has AMD APU E350 (low end<br>
> compared to Kabini ones), with 4GB RAM. Found this good enough for<br>
> multi purpose use, doing all above without much of cpu load factor.<br>
> Any dual core cpu or APU outperforming a E350 , I would say is worth<br>
> it.<br>
><br>
> Online shopping sites give you enough to sort the models, but some suggestions:<br>
> - see that you can add more ram (there should be extra slot - some<br>
> sub 20K ones have only 1 slot and not configurable)<br>
> - 6 cell battery<br>
> - HDD replacable - ie you can change without voiding warranty. You<br>
> may later want to put in a SSD which will easily double the speed.<br>
> - if possible screen size 14" or less<br>
> - would be bonus if it has USB 3.0 ports.<br>
><br>
> Karunakar<br>
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</div></div>Even though you may not require virtualisation today, that could be a<br>
requirement anytime soon.<br>
Consider a machine that can give you Virtualisation facilities. The<br>
machines mentioned here may not provide the same. The price will also<br>
increase accordingly.<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I was looking at few laptop models and there a lots of Pentium Quad Core models. I checked at intel website and these are supposedly new series of Pentium processors. I could also see that it supports virtualisation (Vtx). here is a link to compare a i3 and PQC <a href="http://ark.intel.com/compare/82105,81018,75107">http://ark.intel.com/compare/82105,81018,75107</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Can any one point out why this processor (PQC) will not be good enough for a regular desktop/internet browsing etc work.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also how does not having hyper-threading effects efficiency of using Linux on the same.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>--<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Gaurav Pant<br></div></div>