Notebook buying advice...

[laxmanb]

I'm thinking of buying a notebook computer, & am have almost made my choice...

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en/ho/WF06b/1090709-1116637-1123071-1123071-1123071-12898184-78096337.html

PROS: It's quite cheap($777), and has a DVD burner...

CONS: The processor is single core...

Please let me know your opinions about the above notebook...

a. is 512 MB of RAM enough??

b. Should i go for dual core instead??

[maniacmusician]

Yeah, I'd go for a dual core intel processor. 512 MBs isn't too bad; make sure you can add more later if you ever need to.

[laxmanb]

b/w AMD & Intel dual core... Turion 62 x2 or Core Duo?? (Core 2 Duo out of budget...)

[weatherman]

I'm thinking of buying a notebook computer, & am have almost made my choice...

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en/ho/WF06b/1090709-1116637-1123071-1123071-1123071-12898184-78096337.html

PROS: It's quite cheap($777), and has a DVD burner...

CONS: The processor is single core...

Please let me know your opinions about the above notebook...

a. is 512 MB of RAM enough??

b. Should i go for dual core instead??
Depends on what you're going to use it for. Unless you are a programmer and/or need to run some heavy-computation stuff I'd say the laptop is absolutely fine.