felidae

I finally will be getting my laptop tomorrow after I get my refund and I have my eye on two machines. One is a HP Pavilion thats $999 and it has:
# 14.1"-diagonal widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) BrightView LCD screen
# AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-62 operating at 2.1GHz
# 1MB (512KB+512KB) L2 cache
# Up to 1600MHz frontside bus
# 3GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory (on 2 DIMMs)
# Maximum memory capacity: 4GB (
# 250GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive
# LightScribe SuperMulti DVD drive with Double Layer support (reads/writes DVD±R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R Double Layer, CD-R/RW)
# ExpressCard/54 slot: also supports ExpressCard/34
# 802.11b/g wireless LAN
# nVidia GeForce Go 7150M graphics with up to 1071MB shared memory
# Altec Lansing audio with stereo speakers
# HP mobile remote control
# Stereo earbud headphones (1 pair)
# 6-cell lithium-ion battery; 65W AC adapter
# Dimensions: 1 9/16"H x 13 1/8"W x 9 5/16"D
# Weight: 5.25 lbs

and the other one is a Sony Vaio thats $899 that has:
Intel� Core(TM)2 Duo Mobile (1.66ghz)
WXGA widescreen LCD with XBRITE-ECO technology (1280 x 800)
15.4"
667MHz (system bus)
2MB at die Level 2 (cache memory)
2GB mem (upgradable to 4)
SATA 200GB HDD (5400rpm)
Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW
intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (up to 358MB video memory)
Built-in high-speed Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965AGN network connection (802.11a/b/g/n) and all the usual bells and whistles.

I want a computer that would be able to play the English league (conference and up) and the Singapore league with a large database. I have my eyes on the Sony but I am worried about getting a laptop that is incompatible with FM.
So any help from the community and SI would be very much appreciated.

Thx.

retired_omid

Either of them is going to run FM fine. To be honest I don't really know what an AMD dual core is like, so my initial rection would be to go for what I know.

I have just bought a Sony Vaio as my only PC now, and I am more than happy with it so far.

retired_pearl44

First one, easily.

More RAM more processor.

You only pay for the name with Sonys.