Whatever you do get the Intel chip. The AMDs run super hot and require more battery power to cool down. They are also slower.
I just bought 2 HP laptops, AMD Turion x64 and Intel Centrino and the Intel runs so much nicer. Same specs on both, but the Intel is not nearly as hot and it runs a lot smoother. The AMD made it's way back to the store the very next day.
I work with 3 brands of laptops, a Dell Latitude, IBM Thinkpad and now the HP. For the money I think the HP is great, just love the look and feel of it, the touchpad with scroll and tap, the webcam built in, the Altec Lansing speakers....the list goes on, great little laptop and Vista kicks some serious butt. You need 2G of ram to run it, but it is a great OS with some really great features built in. My wife is hooked on all the multimedia stuff on it and she is not a computer friendly person.
The Dell is nice and thin, but I don't like it. It looks cheap to me, wouldn't recommend it.
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