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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3643737" data-attributes="member: 360">Sometimes people are rather impercise in giving CPU names on eBay.Anything with Turion and X2 in it is a Turion 64 X2; AMD didn't make any dual-core 32-bit chips.An AMD Turion 64 X2 TL56 is 1.8 GHz CPU of pretty much the same design as an Athlon 64 X2 desktop chip, tweaked to use less power; it'd be slightly slower than an Athlon 64 X2 3600+, slower than any Core 2 Duo, and about the equivalent of the similarly-clocked Core Duo T2400. A TL52 is the same chip, except clocked at 1.6 GHz.A Turion 64 X2 MK36 doesn't exist; either the model number or the branding is wrong. An MK36 model number would indicate a single-core Turion 64.Centrino is not a CPU name, and never has been; it's Intel's brand name for a combination of several things including an Intel mobile CPU (Pentium M, Core Duo, or Core 2 Duo), an Intel chipset, and an Intel wireless card. So in that case it's the Centrino Core Duo T2450 (2.00GHz) that's important.There's really too much out there to give more than general guidelines. No reasonably priced notebook can play demanding, current games (at least, not anything in a form factor you could use in a coach class airplane seat). Older integrated graphics chipsets are okay for business apps under Windows XP, but may not be able to handle the new 'Aero' UI of Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate. The current ATi and Intel integrated graphics can handle the Aero UI in Vista, and maybe some older games. The dedicated video cards you'll see in reasonably current notebooks -- mostly low-end GeForce 7-series and Radeon X1xxx-series mobile parts (GeForce 8-series parts and Radeon 2xxx-series parts are just showing up now) -- can probably handle older games (like Half-Life 2), but don't try anything relatively new or any Xbox 360 ports out on them.</blockquote>

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