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What's better? HP notebooks or Dell?
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Eh, some of their laptops are fine, others are horrible. I can't really say which brand is better. My suggestion would be to simply do some reasearch on the models and see how other people like them, and any problems they have.
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Nvidia or Radeon cards? Whats the difference? I heard NVidia performs better but Radeons output better graphics, this true?
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In all honestly, I doubt you'll see any visual difference between the two. I rarely notice any difference in quality when using the two brands, or even others. As for performace, I suppose for the most part a compariable card is better from Nvida. The x1600 is a good bit slower than the 7600 series. But of course, not all ATI cards are slower than Nvidia
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...and I play Counter-strike 1.6 a lot. I would like to be able to run CS:Source too but I don't know if I could afford a computer to run it decently.
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I'd seriously invest a little more money if you want to play games on it. I don't know too much about the cards, but both are bottom of the barrel cards. Only slightly better(if any) than your bare Intel integrated crap
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I heard AMD was best for gaming so those are what I have been looking at.
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More past news. Intel is much faster now-of-days, but that's more for the desktop market. I haven't researched the latest mobile processors recently, but Intel has always had a slight edge with them. Personally I'd go with an Intel, but a higher end model. Not some Celeron, or whatever their lowest ones are now.
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Another thing, my dad's desktop that I'm on now has broadband internet and a wireless router. If I hook up to the wireless internet from the notebook, will I get broadband speed on the laptop or will it be slower?
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Of course you'll get broadband speeds! Why wouldn't you?
As long as you're getting a good strong signal, your wireless network should run at least 11Mb/s. A typical broadband modem doesn't even go faster than 10MB/s, so of course you'll be matching the speed of the internet. Now there are other factors that could mess up your connection... Noise, distance, etc. As you get farther away, your signal strength and speed decrease.
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Also, on a dual-core processor, if it's 1.6Ghz, does that make the total speed 3.2ghz because there is 2 processors?
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Totally false. Dual core is like having two processors. However, this does NOT double your speed. It simply "shares the load" between the cores.