Socket S1 CPU Performance?

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited December 2007 in Hardware
I'm in the market to buy my sister a laptop for Christmas this year. Unfortunately the budget is severely limited, and I'm trying to get something with XP as well.

Most of the laptops in the lower end of the pricing range contain socket S1 CPUs, particularly the Mobile Sempron 3600+ which appears to operate at 2GHz.

I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about the performance of this CPU? Her current laptop is getting old, and she's going to graduate and go into teaching this year, so I want to get her something that will last and perform for the kinds of tasks she would need it for. As I said, however, the budget is severely limited, we're trying to keep the price of the laptop under $500. I'd like to go dual-core on it, but it doesn't seem possible in this price range.

Comments

  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited November 2007
    I just bought the gateway t-1620 its was a best buy black friday deal, I ended up getting it for $500 (long story) and it has been nice so far. It has the t-56 x2 turion but it does have vista. Nice system for what I use it for. I had Second Life, firefox, and 2x other apps and its was running okay. Not the fastest system in the world but its not bad either.
  • prijipriji
    edited December 2007
    Model numbers of Athlon XP/MP/64 processors indicate processor's performance relative to Pentium 4 line of processors. Model numbers for AMD Sempron processors are relative to Intel Celeron family of processors. The model numbers are written as:
    <number><number>+
    The number is basically a Pentium 4 megahertz rating. The model number always includes trailing '+' character to distinguish it from real processor frequency.
    The main reason for using model numbers is that the processor performance does not only depend from the processor frequency, it also depends on other processor features, such as FSB (front-side bus) speed, L2 cache size, microprocessor architecture and other CPU features. As the Athlon, and especially Athlon 64 CPU family significantly outperforms the Pentium 4 processors at the same clock frequency, comparing only processor frequency puts AMD processors in disadvantage. Using model numbers for processor comparison makes comparison process more fair. Please note that because model numbers are based on benchmarks of wide range of applications, they should be treated only as an approximation of the processor performance. There are always applications that will perform faster or slower than processor's rated performance.</number>
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