I agree about getting more ram. 96 or 128 would be nice but it might shorten
your battery a tad. Cel 366 and PII 333 shouldn't be much diffrence for general
use, unless you need that 256K (not sure) on-die cache on PII.
BTW, I'm interested in Acer Travelmate 300 series. They look nice.
Chanop
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 06:43:36AM -0400, Sean wrote:
> Go for the cheapest option, definately (I'm assuming that's the
> Celeron-option). And
> get as much RAM as possible.
>
> Just my 2c.
>
> Sean
>
> Hans van den Boogert wrote:
>
> > Next week I'm going to buy a notebook (Acer Travelmate 510 series). If you
> > could choose, what would you rather buy....
> >
> > 1) configuration with a Celeron 366,
> > 2) configuration with a Pentium II 333.
> >
> > The price difference is about US$155, for which I could....
> >
> > - upgrade from 32 to 64 MB RAM
> > - get modem and network PCMCIA cards.
> >
> > The rest of the spec is the same for both machines, so I'm just interested
> > in your opinion regarding the performance of the Celeron and PII. In test
> > reports it always comes up that performance between the Celeron and PII is
> > very close and I wonder if this is true. I'm not cheap and I would happily
> > fork over an extra US$150 if needed, but I rather put my money where it is
> > most useful and RAM and PCMCIA cards are very useful. I have to note that
> > I'm not that CPU-power hungry, but still....
> >
> > Thanks, -- Hans
> >
>
>
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