If it's play games then AMD is generally faster but with a new NB 512 MEG of RAM is going to be way to little as you'll be looking at Vista most likely and that needs at least 1 GIG if not more.
If you are looking at Office Applications then Intel will be better as they produce a more stable platform to work with and not fall over loosing unsaved work like some AMD M'Board Chip Sets can cause to happen.
So it entirely depends on what you want to do High Speed for Games go AMD but if you want reliability and a solid platform to work from only consider Intel as an option.
The rest depends entirely on what you buy as to what you need but if you are looking at anything Vista Related you'll need at least 1 GIG of RAM if not [b]More[/b] so don't skimp on this as it's far cheaper to Max out a NB at Point of Sale in RAM than to attempt this latter when it's going to cost you much more for the same thing and you'll be stuck with RAM that you have had to remove so you can fit bigger and better Sticks.
Also with any New NB always make sure that you have 2 sticks of RAM Fitted as all the modern CPU's rely on having 2 RAM Sticks so that they can work at peek efficiency. If you only have 1 RAM Stick fitted the CPU will not be able to run to 100% performance as half the Front Side Buss will be missing so it will be much slower than it needs to be.
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