i've got a £300 currys or pc world voucher to buy a new laptop, was wondering what laptop to buy, im willing to go up to around £400. im a student and will mainly use it for work but want the laptop to be quick and have a decent memory

also wondering whats the difference between AMD, Intel Celeron M, Intel Core 2 Duo and Pentium 4,

cheers

I like the AMD platform, Duo core means twice the work in half the time, or almost. I own a custom computer I built myself, AMD Duo-core 4200+ CPU. Look for a laptop with a duo-core CPU, Intel or AMD Turion. cheers

Some reading here to help you along
http://compreviews.about.com/od/cpus/

what do people think of this:

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_...p;category_oid= or http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw...ormationSection

seems pretty good to me and for the money?

ok forrest,,,, go for the second one mate,,, the advent,,, there simaler spec but the advent has 2gb of ram,,, running vista you will need all that 2gb,,,, the other has only 1 gb of ram and will run slower because of this,,,,, also curry's are one of the worst shops on the plannet for after sales service,,, they will do anything not to give you your money back if the goods go nipples up,,, where as pc world will change it or give a full refund without asking or trying to fob you off.
good luck.

cheers mate, my old laptop was a advent was really good, gotta replace it cos the screen has cracked, are there any other laptops of a similar price that anyone would recommend, but if not, the advent seems like a sound choice, cheers, good luck next season, hope u go up