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Originally Posted by abhi182 goodchoice
Sorry buddy, it's not as simple as that....14" widescreens have a higher resolution (1280X768/1280X800 vs. 1024X768 on 14/15" normal scree) thus they display more info on the screen....
Also, as for the difference between celeron-M and Pentium-M...
Both teh chips are based on the Dothan core architecture...The difference being 1MB of L2 Cache(Celeron-M) vs 2MB on Pentium-M and the lack of speestep on Celeron-M.
In real life, this translates to minimal performance difference but close to 20% better battery life on the Pentium-M...
However, unlike desktops where celeron earnmed a bad reputationsa as sluggish performer, the Celeron-Ms are pretty good vis-a-vis Pentium-M
Though all said & done, given the big price difference, Celeron-M based machines do make a very good VFM choice
AMD Turions in comparison lie somewhere between comparable clocked Celeron-M and Pentium-M in terms of both performance and Battery life....
Turion come in two flavors, ML and MT..MT series is motre expensive but has lower heat dissipation....
However, the Turions win over P-M/C-M because of the fact that they are relatively more future proof (Read windows Vista ready) becuase:
a) They are 64bit capable
b) They typically come with a Radeon X200 based Graphics chipset which is way superior to the Intel 915 chipset GFX on the Pentium-M based machines |
Some corrections here.
The difference between battery life of pentium M and celeron M comes to 20% if both are allowed to downclock. Otherwise on constant usage the difference is lessened.
Pentium M is a marketing gimmick that earned Intel huge green bucks. But Celeron M is actually a better buy at the price.
Turion M is based on the athlon core. battery life difference is not much between centrino and Turion. Many claim their centrino to do 4-5 hours and they hibernate within 3-3.5 hours. Turion does 2.5-3 hours with respect. The centrino cpu is old and outdated now. Turions are still in the business and earning AMD huge market share from intel. In our building we have 9 amd lappies (1 amd athlon 4000,2 semprons, 6 turions) compared to 5 pentiums(4 centrino tech and 1 only pentium M) The yonah duo has had many problems attached to it such a low battery life( probably due to USB power leakage).
one more additional advantage of The amd turion core is the use of Hypertransport for FSB compared to intel.
straight forward verdict:- If you need to buy a cheap notebook pc then now is the time. Turion notebooks are available at a steal. Turion X2 dual cores are debuting this may06 but are not recommended at the high prices they would carry.
If its not necessary to buy now then The new 60nm dual core architectures from both Intel(yonah is 60nm but old school architecture) and AMD are going to be more than 3 times better performance per watt and offer better battery life and the good news is they are coming this year.
on top of that they are dual cores.
Hint of what they are capable of:- The new intel conroe architecture @2.67ghz beats the top of the line amd fx-60 @2.8ghz and maybe equal to the best cpu ever, the fx-57.
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