Acer Vs Dell Vs HP

[Peet]

Hi everyone,
I'd like to ask a question. Right-now I have a desktop system with socket A sempron 2600+@1833 mhz, 1GB memory, 250 GB WD HDD and an agp videocard(9550). A few month before I had several problems with my PC, so I decided to purchase a laptop instead of upgrading this one. I chose the following for notebooks:
1) http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as7520.htm
2) http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_1501?c=us&cs= 19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn
3)http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/cz/cs/sm/WF06 b/388741-387007-387007-387007-12434738-13123990-80082812.html
4)http://h10010.w ww1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/321957-321957-64295-321838-89315-3368540-3356624- 3382961.html

Questions: 1) Only the Acer laptop has separate videocard, the rest of them has it integrated on the mobo?
2) IS there a big difference between Windows Vista Home Premium & Buisness?
Please fell free to tell any suggestions and comments.
Peet

 

[lostandwandering]

The first one comes with a dedicated card but only if you buy the right model. The Dell uses integrated and your other two links don't work. Vista Business will give you some extra security features and advanced network features, but Home Premium is probably o.k.(I'm using XP so I don't really know).

Any reason you are sold on AMD processors? Intels are currently better. This isn't to say that the Turion X2's are bad, but if you want the best performance Core2Duo is the way to go for now.

 

[qwazzy]

Business really isn't for the home user.

I have home Premium on 2 PC's, and I like it. It works great, and has a lot more neat features than XP.

Of course, so will Business, but it will have things installed that you will probably never use.

 

[Peet]

The other 2 HP laptops:
1) HP Compaq 6715b TL-58
Model procesor
AMD Turion64X2 TL58
SPeed CPU
1900 MHz
Cache
1024 KB
Display
Tip display
WXGA
Diagonala
15.4 inch
Chipset video
ATI Radeon X1250
Rezolutie optima
1280 x 800
Capacitate memorie video
256 MB
Video memory type
Shared
Reproducere culori
16.7 millions
HDD type
SATA
Capacity of HDD
120 GB
HDD speed
5400 RPM
Memory type
DDR2
Memory installed
1024 MB
max RAM
4096 MB
Multimedia
optical drives
DVD+/-RW
Audio
Intel High Definition
Connectivity
Network 10/100
Wireless IEEE 802.11
Modem 56k
Iesire casti
Da
Microfone
Firewire IEEE 1394
TV-Out S-Video
USB 2.0- 4 ports
Bluetooth
Baterry
Li-Ion 6 celule
General
Sistem de operare inclus
Microsoft Windows Vista Business
Size
357 × 265 x 35 (W x D x H mm)
Weight
2.7 Kg
Probably I'll buy it at this shop so there's their link.
http://www.shopit.ro/sisteme/notebook/hp/compaq-6715b-tl-58/

 

[Peet]

Hp notebook no.2 HP Compaq 6715b TL-60
http://www.shopit.ro/sisteme/notebook/hp/compaq-6715b-tl-60/

AMD Turion64X2 TL60
2000 MHz
Cache
1024 KB

WSXGA+
15.4 inch
Chipset video
ATI Radeon X1250
Rezolutie optima
1680 x 1050
up to 512 MB
Shared
Reproducere culori
16.7 milioane
HDD
SATA
160 GB
5400 RPM
Memory
DR2
Memory speed
667 MHz
Memory installed
2048 MB
Memory max
4096 MB
Multimedia
DVD+/-RW
Audio
Intel High Definition
Network 10/100
Wireless IEEE 802.11
Modem 56k
USB 2.0 -4 ports
Bluetooth
Li-Ion
General
Microsoft Windows Vista Business
357 x 265 x 35 (W x D x H mm)
2.6 Kg

 

[Peet]

I have an AMD processor right now, and I'm satisfied with it so that's why I thought to buy one of them.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'll use it for watching movies, surfing on the internet, listen to mp3, some office work, mostly MS Word, and some gaming(Starcraft 2, sims2, gta san andreas, nfs carbon )
Thanks for your replies

 

[lostandwandering]

Of those four, the last HP is the best. It has the fastest AMD CPU of the group and has 2gb of RAM. All of them have integrated graphics except the Acer. Non of the laptops with integrated will be able to play many games. They will play Sims, but probably not the others.

It, for whatever reason, seems like only Intel laptops come with decent graphics cards. Not sure why. You may want to take a look at some of the Intel based laptops.

 

[Peet]

I checked out some Intel based laptops and the funny thing is that only their processor is faster. Most of them have integrated video card, and hdd with less capacity, smaller display etc. like this one: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2007/mobilitysummit/ds_6710s.pdf
T he Acer compared to the Hp no2(AMD) is slightly faster due to its dedicated GPU. Although the HP is lighter, and has a faster processor, but smaller display and less capable videocard, and a 60$+ cost compared to Acer. Both of them have 2 GB memory, and the hp has vista business compared to Acer's Home premium.