Buying a Laptop!

hi,

im thinking of getting a new laptop since school's starting soon for me and i won't be living at home anymore. i dunno what should i get. someone told me to get Intel instead of AMD.. i seriously don't know differences..

budget: max $1000 CND live in canada.
purpose: mainly for word processing, msn, music.. casual gaming, playing WoW atm.

well here's the cheapest one at my local store, i really dun care about the hardware..crazy single duo core Intel Celeron Pentium i don't even understand lol. i just want a cheap deal and which is better Intel or AMD for laptop?
or should i just go to dell.ca and get one..? or custom build..?

http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=88,89,90,4517&webid=654704&affixedcode=WW

thx in advance!

 

for a student and casual gamer,go with an AMD.Try to get at least the 64 bit processor (AMD64 3200 or better). Intels are nice,but unless you are using it for business instead of personal,they are overkills. Here are a couple of options:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/HP-PAVILLION-LAP...yZ140082QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/ntbkx648000.asp?v=d

 

Truth, I would go for the maximum features. Things like DVD RW, wireless internet, wired internet, hard drive size,. If you can get add ons for free I would factor that in, things like printers, scanners. The actual CPU isn't as important as it would seem, at a certain level you have to be running the right software to see the difference. It is hard to tell the difference when your using a word processor, they were running pretty well back with CPU's were running a 100Mhz, the current crop of 2000+Mhz CPUs don't really work any better for business software. The faster CPUs show up on the top end games and video processing, just playing DVDs isn't that computer intensive.