O/S: 216dx: Windows Vista Home Basic, 210us: Vista Home Premium I'd definitely choose the Intel-based model! However, there are a few minor features that are included on the AMD-based CQ60-210US that are NOT on the CQ60-216dx: The CQ60-210US will perform very similarly to these (and the results aren't impressive). Here are reviews of the Compaq CQ50-115NR (2.0GHz RM-70) and CQ50-215NR (1.9GHz QL-62), both of which have the nVIDIA 8200M G integrated graphics. In any case, the performance of both models lags substantially behind Intel processors with similar clock speeds. The only reviews/benchmark results I've seen are for the 1.9GHz QL-60 and the RM-70, none for the QL-62 yet. The 2.0GHz AMD Athlon QL-62 has the same specifications as the AMD Turion X2 RM-70, except the Wattage is 31W for the RM-70 and 25W for the QL-62. It's not a Compaq, but gives you an idea of the level of performance you can expect- Acer Aspire w/ T3200 Here's a review of a laptop that uses the T3200 and Intel GMA 4500M graphics. The T3400 is the T5850 (C2D) with half (1mb) the L2 cache memory.Īccording to the benchmark results I've seen, the T3400 even scores higher than the 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo T5800 (most prevalent mainstream CPU in budget/mainstream laptops). The T3200 is the T5750 (C2D) with half (1mb) the L2 cache memory. Unlike previous iterations of Pentium Dual-Core processors, the T3200/T3400 are essentially Core 2 Duo models. Click to expand.Hands down, the CQ60-216DX (Intel) will be a superior performer in all processor-intensive tasks (multi-tasking, in particular).