[LAU] PATA or SATA? Yonah or Merom?

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I'm a hardware idiot. I have the worst luck buying hardware: I always buy the wrong thing and end up getting screwed. Plus I don't have a lot of money, so when I get screwed, it's devastating.

So that's why I avoid buying hardware. But still, I need a laptop, and so here I am shopping and probably about to make some stupid and unrecoverable mistake that will cost me everything.

I'm torn between these two ones:

http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?313598_ASUS_90NG6G161500000L18

Which says it supports Yonah but not Merom! This is bizarre, because I'm told that it is the same socket and same package. But still, the specs say what they say, and I'm reluctant to buy it because... what if the specs were right and I get screwed by a machine I can't upgrade? But this machine has SATA, and Nvidia chipset.

Then there's this one:

http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?321259_ASUS_90N-SI8G181101000L1Z

Which explicitly says it will support Merom (including the T7600, which is what I want), but... it only has PATA support. It has the Intel graphics chipset but I'm used to that (with my Mac Mini) and it seems to work more than well enough for music stuff.

So how important is SATA over PATA for audio work?

And, does the graphics chipset matter at all (so far, I'd guess not).

Finally, what's with the explicit lack of mention of Merom? Will a Merom T7600 simply not work in that unit, or is it a safe bet that it will?

TIA for any help or advice on this.

- -ken
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Received on Wed Apr 4 08:15:02 2007