Hey jeyges!!
I know you were asking Crazy4Laptops but I will try and put your worries to rest.
First of all, the Athlon is not a Hybrid . It is an equivalent to a single core Intel.
BUT NOT EQUAL TO A CELERON. It is much more powerful.
A Celeron from intel would be the equal of a Sempron from AMD
What we would call "Budget Processors"
I have a ATHLON 3500+ 2.2 GIG which is more powerful
than a 2.2 GIG Intel. single core.
The sales person was not mistaking by much as I consistently
get 2.5 hours with mine. The amount of Cells on the battery
will also determine the time you get off the AC.
Mine came with a 9 cell battery.
Second , the Turion X2 is a mobile core (processor)
You will get more battery life out of this core than with the ATHLON core.
As I stated in my previous post, we tested my Daughter's Turion
which is a 2.0 GIG and we got a little over 5 hours of movie time.
Also the heat produced will be less.
Now for your question on the Pentium dual core, this is a earlier version
and less powerful than the Core 2 Duo.
It has to do with how many threads of information it can process.(to put it in simple terms but it is much more complicated)
As far as the Video is concerned. If you can get a stand alone Graphics card
with dedicated memory (usually around 128megs and sometimes higher for a notebook in the price range you are looking at)
as opposed to a Graphics Accelerator ( On Board Video, like the one from Intel)
I would strongly suggest that you go with the stand alone Graphics Card. This could be from either ATI or NVidia.
The Toshiba that you walked away from can you post the rest of the Specs.
That one sounds very interesting.
Well, I hope I cleared up some of your worries.
If you have any other concerns, I'll be here for a while yet.
FLASHORN.
Patience is life.
