I have a three year old generic laptop from Fry's Electronics. They are giving me a warranty replacement computer, but they no longer make mine, so they are substituting a refurbished Compaq. My original computer had a Pentium Centrino, duo-core 1.6 mhz processor. I think it cost about $650 at the time. The refurb Compaq sells in the store for $379. It has an AMD Athlon, 1.6mhz processor. The Technician guy also said that based on that price, that's as much as they would be willing to give me in store credit toward any other replacement computer. I know nothing about AMD's, and I'm worrying about them trying to screw me. I was thinking about insisting on a Pentium. Not that I think that they're any better than AMD's. I just know more about them, and I like to go with what I know. ...
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