Which One Is Better? Pentium or AMD?

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Hi everyone.

I'm considering buying a laptop/notebook computer and I'd like to know
what to look for. I've heard the M chip is the best out today. Is this
true? I used to hear that AMD was not so hot, but I now hear that it's
comparable to the Pentium chip. I need help on what I should be looking
for. It would be mainly for surfing the web, email, instant messaging
chat with video and maybe a game or two.

Thank You!
Me

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Me wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm considering buying a laptop/notebook computer and I'd like to know
> what to look for. I've heard the M chip is the best out today. Is this
> true? I used to hear that AMD was not so hot, but I now hear that it's
> comparable to the Pentium chip. I need help on what I should be looking
> for. It would be mainly for surfing the web, email, instant messaging
> chat with video and maybe a game or two.

The "game or two" is likely to be the deciding factor. What particular
games do you have in mind? Many have rather heavy video-processor
requirements and the availability of a suitable video processor may be the
controlling factor.

Beyond that, while the AMD chips themselves have good performance and their
power consumption is the same as or less than a Pentium M, the other system
components for the Pentium M were designed by Intel specifically to work
with it in a laptop configuration and optimized for low power consumption,
while the AMD relies on third-party chipsets that so far have been more
general-purpose in nature, so the power consumption of the machine in which
it is installed will not be as low as for a Pentium M that uses the Intel
chipset. If you need high performance video that requires an ATI or nvidia
GPU then I suspect that the AMD and Intel will start to pull even on
battery life--the Intel package includes Intel's own embedded video which
works but isn't what anyone other than Intel would call "high performance"
and the third-party video pretty much negates the advantage of the Intel
low power chips.


> Thank You!
> Me

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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Me wrote:

> Hey thanks for the help!
>
> Even though I've heard pretty good things about the AMD, I'm just not
> ready to change. I pretty much have my mind made up to get the Pentium
> M.
>
> Thanks again!
> Me
>
>
Yeah go for the Pentium. I just got a P4 myself. No "celery" or
"amd" for me (grin).
Kokomo Joe

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On 12 Aug 2005 10:39:24 -0700, "Me" <nobody9@myself.com> wrote:

>Hi everyone.
>
>I'm considering buying a laptop/notebook computer and I'd like to know
>what to look for. I've heard the M chip is the best out today. Is this
>true? I used to hear that AMD was not so hot, but I now hear that it's
>comparable to the Pentium chip. I need help on what I should be looking
>for. It would be mainly for surfing the web, email, instant messaging
>chat with video and maybe a game or two.
>
>Thank You!
>Me
AMD Turion is better value for money than Centrino for a given spec.