While shopping for a PC for my parents, I endeed buying 2 computers @ BB today. I bought an eMachines Celeron D 340 (2.93Ghz) desktop, a Toshiba Celeron M 370 (1.5Ghz), and I already own a Latitude D600 centrino (1.3Ghz).
I will only be keeping one of the computers and selling the other. It will be a no-gaming family PC for non-demanding applications. Which computer is better the eMachines, or the Toshiba? Also how will they compare to my current Dell Latitude? (Keep in mind, their RAM a trivial subject because I'm adding 512MB Corsair ValueSelect to the one I keep) Here are the Specs for all three:
Emachines Desktop ($150): Celeron D 340 (2.93Ghz), 256KB L2 cache, 533Mhz FSB, 256MB RAM, Chipset??, DVD/CD-RW drive, 5-in-one card reader, etc.
Toshiba Laptop ($380): Celeron M 370 (1.5Ghz), 1MB L2 cache, 400Mhz FSB, 256MB RAM, ATI Radeon Xpress 400M chipset, DVD/CD-RW drive, 15in display, 802.11g wireless, etc.
Latitude D600 ($1700 in 2003): Intel Centrino Pentium M (1.3GHZ), 1MB L2 Cache, 400Mhz FSB, 855 Centrino Chipset Family, 512MB RAM, integrated 802.11a/b/g wireless, DVD/CD-RW drive, 14.1in display, 10/100/1000 gigabit internet, etc.
So will the toshiba laptop beat out the emachine desktop in performance? Will the Celeron M really outperform it's desktop counterpart? It looks like the toshiba might do that. But I have a hard time believing that a new $380 celeron laptop will beat my 2.5 yr old $1700 centrino computer. If it wiil though, I might as well keep that too. I've reasearch everywhere and have a hard time comparing all the different and conflicting information.
PS- I realize I alredy posted this, but I feel that it may have been in a n inapropriate forum.
