Which processor for me?

Hi there,
I'm buying a laptop and find a lot of Vista laptops with these processors:
-Celeron M 520 1.6GHz
-Celeron M540 1.86 GHz
-Celeron-M 1.6GHz
(all are 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache)
-AMD Sempron 3600 2GHz

My needs are:
-basic net duties,
-copying photos from digital camera
-maybe some DVD playback

Are any of these Celerons unsuitable for my needs?
I would be replacing Vista with XP for this - are any of these unsuited to running XP?

Also, does "DVD Super Multi / Double Layer" mean that it can burn DVDs?

Heres a link to the laptop that looks most promising (based on price)
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_...7_/version.asp

Thanks,
Leofola

 

The link does not work, it goes to their website but does not go to a laptop. What is your price range? I like reading the reviews at www.newegg.com as a starting point and price referance.

I'm surprised there weren't any Centrino Duo CPUs on your list.

Super Multi usally means support for various types of DVDs...DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R DL, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, CD-R, CD-RW.

 

Not sure what happened to that link and I seem to have lost the bookmark - spooky!


Price range = no concern (ex-demo model - good savings)

To recap:
I need a laptop to install XP on and use for:
-basic net duties,
-copying photos from digital camera
-maybe some DVD playback

Which system will do that without cra-a-a-aaawl-ing.
Also, if the Celerons won't do it, what exactly are they useful for? (just curious)

1:
AMD Turion 64 MK-36 - 2GHz, 512KB L2 Cache
512MB DDR2

2:
AMD Athlon 64 TK-55 - 1.8GHz, up to 800MHz FSB, 512KB L2 Cache
1GB DDR2 (2 x 512MB)

3:
AMD Turion 64 MK-38 - 2.2GHz
1GB Fast DDR RAM

4
AMD Sempron 3600 2GHz
1GB (1*1024MB) DDR2 533MHz

5
Celeron M540 1.86 GHz
1GB DDR2-667MHz

6
Celeron M 520 1.6GHz
512MB DDR II SDRAM

7
Celeron M 520 1.6GHz
2GB DDR2

 

My choice would be #2. I can't seem to pull up info from the AMD site but poking around it looks like it is a Dual Core (two CPUs on one chip). #3 may be faster but its a single core. All of the CPUs should be okay for what you want if for but get at least 1 Gig of RAM.

Celrons are fine just a bit older. Centrinos are newer.