QUOTE(honeykee26 @ Nov 21 2007, 02:17 PM)
i m thinking to buy a new compaq laptop v3614AU or v3658tu.jus for normal usage like doin asgment n sufing net .AMD is adequate for me ?.is compaq reliable ? is it window vista must have at least 1GB support or it will lack?
pls gv me sugeestion....thxx guys.. ^.^
AMD got higher clockspeed but downside is low L2 cache
intel got slight lower clockspeed, but L2 is almost double of AMD's
if you dunno wat is all those stuff, can just ignore it

if you discard the comparison, either amd or intel will do
as for win vista, i will not recommend it, as it still too new and got tons of bugs
if you insist want to use vista, 2gb is recommended
plus install xp in another partition, incase you regret on using vista

if going for xp, depends what kind of tasks you going to do
if just doing assignment, 1gb is more than enuf
like mine i mostly doing 3d rendering, programming and photoshop, so i need 2gb ram