I wanna buy a laptop and i wanna buy one that will be compatible with windows vista... which do you think is better?: Intel® Centrino with Intel® Pentium® M 1.7GHz AMD Turion 64 1.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 2GHz
Personally if you had to only choose from those three i would go with the Turion, however i would highly recommend getting an Intel Celeron M. A Celeron M 2.0GHz will run faster and more efficiently, with better battery life than a Pentium M 2.0GHz will, the Pentium is merely better for gaming on a laptop. The Celeron uses about 20-25W of power, where as the Pentium M use's 50-60W (double), hence you get much better battery life with a Celeron. "Centrino" is not a technology, commonly misconceived, it is infact just a bundle, if you have a Pentium M based processor + an Intel Wireless card + XP = Intel Centrino. - It's just marketing. Now alot of people i suspect will be reading my post going.. "WHAT!?!?!?! A CELERON ISNT FASTER THAN A PENTIUM!!" - Yes it is. It's proven (only with Pentium / Celeron Mobile processors). The Pentium M is a 130nm chip (runs alot hotter), where as the Celeron M runs @ 90nm (alot cooler), the Pentium M has double the Celeron M's L2 cache. But again unless your gaming or doing video encoding (neither of which you should be doing on a laptop ideally) - the Celeron M out performs the Pentium M. I personally would recommend getting something along the lines of: Celeron M 1.5Ghz or higher 512MB to 1GB of memory 80GB - 100GB Hard Drive (5400RPM - 7200RPM) (dont get a 4200RPM - bottle necks ur processor) Good battery life. Highly recommend: IBM ThinkPads / Acer TravelMate Series / Toshiba Satellite Pro Oh.. and Celerons are alot cheaper than Pentium M based laptops. - It's all marketing. Hope this helps.
