Tom's Hardware > Forum > Laptops & Notebooks > General Laptops & Notebooks > Wait for Yonah?

Wait for Yonah?

Forum Laptops & Notebooks : General Laptops & Notebooks - Wait for Yonah?

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
NotebookNovice   12-17-2005 at 09:03:19 PM

Hi.

My wife is ready to trade-in her five (?) year old Dell pentium II notebook. Should we wait for the Intel Yonah based notebooks to come out? She'll be starting grad school at the beginning of March and will definitely need a new one by then. Does anyone know if the new notebooks will be out by then?

We've looked at a few makes and models that are out now. 14" widescreen looks to be the right size. The Asus W3V seems very nice. We also like the 13" Sony. But that gets very pricey when you option it out. MSI Computer has just come out with a 14" widescreen. Anyone have an opinion on them? Averatec makes a 13" widescreen, but that has a kind of cheap feel to it. Agree or disagree?

Her notebook will be used primarily for work and school. No game playing.

One more thing. How come no one (except Apple) uses a slot loading dvd drive? Is it just cost?

Thanks.

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
habitat87   01-02-2006 at 07:09:55 AM
- 0 +

not sure if this post is too late, but yes, wait for the new processors to come out, for two reasons. one, you can buy an older one when the prices come down, this is normal. or you can buy the new processors which will probably be worth it. either way, your going to want to wait.

as for the loading design that apple has, i guess it's just their design. personally, i'm going to wait for mac to have the intel processors and get one of those things. now that's going to be worth every penny in my opinion.

Reply to habitat87
bpgunning   01-12-2006 at 04:44:27 AM
- 0 +

The Yonah just came out like this week. It is not worth it. For significantly less expensive you can get a regular Pentium M notebook or even better an Athlon 64 (or Turion 64 mobile) processor. The Athlon 64 beats out the Pentium 4 in most categories and still manages good battery life. While the Pentium M gets the best battery life, it is not as performance-oriented. The only thing the Yonah (now officially called Core Duo) is good for is multitasking. Because it has literally 2 processors slapped on top of one another, it can run many programs with little loss in performance. The thing about the Athlon 64 is that it, unlike the Core Duo, can run 64 bit programs, the future of computing. While 64 bit programs are not commonly in use, they will be in the next few years. In addition, the Core Duo is currently only available on 17" laptops, which is not what you are looking for. Go to www.hp.com and check out their 14.1" Turion 64 laptops. They get excellent battery life and will not need to be upgraded in the near future.

From what I understand, you are looking for something highly portable that gets good battery life with still enough power for some pretty tough programs. If I am right, I would go with the Turion 64 or Athlon 64. The Pentium M is a fine choice as well, but will not have as much to offer in the future.

To answer your question, it is possible to find slot-loading drives on certain laptops, but yes they are significantly more expensive and require a small motor to pull in/push out the disk.

And to habitat87, don't wait for the Intel processors to come out on the Macs. AMD overall makes better processors for the money.

Reply to bpgunning
habitat87   01-12-2006 at 12:16:19 PM
- 0 +

what? uhhhh, yeah, it just came out... it was probably in like one notebook?... which is why i'm waiting... have you seen how much performance it ranked up? not to mention it has better or the same battery life while increasing performance by a huge margin, i don't think you can beat that. and besides, who is actually going to benefit from 64 bit? a scientist? lol. and like you said, probably three years or so? how long do computers last? you might be right about yonah not being worth it, only cause conroe is on the way next and soon with 64 bit support, and so much other stuff that's about to come out, your right, actually, nothing right now is really worth it actually with that in mind. a pentium M low voltage 1.2 ghz machine is more then enough for what they said they need it for. and the new processors are suposively going to be priced at what they current ones are at. oh, i read in a review that the preview of the duo core was beating the x2 in some benchmarks, now i would find that hard to imagine actually, but that's what i read. or thought i did. lol, well either way, it's worth to wait. and for the mac intel thing... if you can install windows on it, which i'm sure you will be able to, how can you even suggest not to wait for something that awesome?! looks good and with the new intel processors?
now if we were talking about desktops, that's a different story, but were not are we? ;) i'm not any fanboy of neither, just a favorable person of what's the best thing and deal out there.

Reply to habitat87
habitat87   01-13-2006 at 03:16:43 AM
- 0 +

oh, i'm sorry, not conroe, that's the desktop version, i meant merom. needed to correct that.

Reply to habitat87
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Laptops & Notebooks > General Laptops & Notebooks > Wait for Yonah?
Go to:

There are 1129 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.376 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them