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Originally Posted by abhi182 Think practical, no one is using his lappy constantly at full load (read video editing/gamin/other processor intensive task) for normal browsing/spreadsheet/word editir sort of apps, the proccy will be running at down clocked speeds |
I do and so do most of the other people I know of. ot everybody needs a hi-tech cpu for their personal use. A personal laptop is basically used for internet, music and MS office and some other basic stuff. And celeron M performs all that very well.
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Originally Posted by abhi182 That's a subjective decision. though i do agree that the value vs price ratio between P-m/C-m is far better than their desktop counterparts
As for the Turion, its a decent performer alright, but for the same clockspeed, the P-m will give you better results in almost all benchmarks....e.g. a P-M 725 at 1.6 Gig will give you ~ 1:50 secs on superPi vs a Turion MT-30 at 1.6 Gig giving you ~2:20
However, a regular user would spot minimal difference in performance in regular usage...
As I said, the adv of the Turion lies in the 64 bit capabiltieis and teh fact that most mainstream Turion laptops have a the X200 gfx subsystem vs the cra&^y i915 on most mainstream Centrin/Celeron-M laptops |
Turion is a decent performer and it also beats pentium M in many benchmarks. But Pentium M get more wins. Not logical though for the higher price you pay.
and as you are talking about the Xpress 200m. That's what I use but intel doesnt only rely on i915. You name the gpu and I will show a pentium M notebook with that gfx.
to prove my performance comparison between the Pentium M and Turion have a look at this recent tests.
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1...4/index.x?pg=1 From a performance perspective, it's clear that the Turion 64 is the winner. By my count, the Pentium M was faster in only five of the tests, and one of those (the hardware OpenGL test in Cinebench) was probably due to graphics drivers. The rest were either a toss-up or a win for the Turion 64. The other thing that struck me about the results was that even in the tests the Pentium M did win, its margin of victory was fairly small. A number of the Turion 64 wins, however, were by an impressively large margin.