Laptop processors and choice

[Flibb]

Hi peeps, wife is after a laptop for doing here dissertation on, but I am rather confused by the mobile processors.

Most of the laptops I have looked at hace celeron mobile 360 1.4GHz processors.

Or theres the Mobile AMD Sempron® 2800+ (1.6GHz) type rigs.

Budget is around £400-£450, apart from the processors the rest of the spec on most models is the same, ie 15", wifi, 40Gb, 256MB. Are there any advantages with either type of procesor?

CHeers

[Butcher]

Not really a lot in it. And for just WP and such either is more than powerful enough.

[Flibb]

Current front runner is
***DEAL***Acer TravelMate 2305LCi Cel-M 360 1.4GHz 256MB 40GB CD-RW/DVD 15" WLAN XPH
£398 inc vat and p&p from Ebuyer.

[Rave]

There's not much in it as Butcher says- the latest mobile Semprons are the socket 754 (I.E. K8 variety) and perform well. The Acer looks alright for the money; occasionally Dell do cheaper ones i.e. sub £350 with a similar spec- depends how much of a hurry you're in really, if there's no urgency wait for the next deal to turn up.