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cosmicgirlie · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

I'm thinking of purchasing a new laptop....I'm thinking of getting it built to my specifications. I know what I want basically....but I'm curious as to which is a better processor....AMD or Intel....and what is the AMD equivalent to the P4 and Centrino?

Thanx in advance folks

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

Since you specified laptop, you need to go Intel. The Pentium M is the best laptop processor around right now. The AMD equivalent is the Turion, but I don't believe there is much availability.

Pangit · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Location: Puet mo.

Centrino for mobility. P4 for processing power. AMD for the cheap compromise between the two. Of course, someone will give you a lot more information than me if you ask for it because there are others more knowledgable out there, but you weren't really looking for specifics, were you?

I think that's what it reduces down to. I'd get an AMD Athlon 64 laptop if I were to buy a laptop. I wouldn't touch Sempron.

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

I'm hearing many good things about the mobile semprons in the 2800 and above class. And they're inexpensive.

Thinking of pickin me up one a dem.

Pangit · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Location: Puet mo.

I thought the Sempron was the Celeron of AMD chips. Am I mistaken?

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

The lower-speed desktop semprons are merely AMD XP chips with 256k LESS of cache. I think their total cache is at least 256k and possibly 384k if you count everything. Nothing to sneeze at.

For mobile processors, the new 3100 chips are a good buy. Older 2800 mobile semprons aren't bad, in my book. I wouldn't buy the 2900 or 3000 chips though, as one or both of those only contain 128k of cache memory (depends on how old your chip is). The 2800 mobile and 3100 have 256k of cache memory.

Yes, the Sempron is the AMD budget chip, but it's not all so slow.

You can get a moble AMD 64 too. The new chip from AMD is the mobile Turion 64 chip. It is essentially a new name on teh mobile 64. Read here: http://www2.technobabble.com.au/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=308

Read this link, too http://castlecops.com/t122542-Centrino_VS_Sempron.html

And this http://msn.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121380,00.asp

Personally, I think the goal of Intel and AMD has been to cover up the fact that they can't make the chips faster without making them darned hot. So they are just making chips that area about the same speed, but run cooler. They seem to "backtrack" ever so often, and build chips they rate higher, but are actually slower than the last series of chips was. But they run cooler, or have a larger bus for faster ram, etc.

I wish I had dual-core. I like to burn or Shrink DVDs, download stuff, and sometimes use photoshop or Adobe Premiere at the same time. Can't get that all done safetly at the same time on my P4 2.4b
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