Intel or AMD laptop?

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ryanheath2006

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I am going to go to college next year and was wondering what kind of lap top I should get. Well in other words which is faster for my money. I didn't know if I should get a Pentium M or a laptop with a AMD chip. I figured I would try to find one for around $1,000. I found a dell xps m140 for around there that had some pretty good specs. I figured around a 1.73 Pentium M. About a gig of ram and a 80 gig hard drive and if I can get it with 7200rpm.
 
The Pentium M would be the best if your on a lower budget, if you can spend a little more i would go with the Intel Core Duo. But either one would be very good.
 
I'd go with Intel... Though if you're really going cheap, go with the AMD Sempron, NOT the celeron(unless you want it to be VERY crippled)
 
The_Other_One said:
I'd go with Intel... Though if you're really going cheap, go with the AMD Sempron, NOT the celeron(unless you want it to be VERY crippled)
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whats the battery life on the sempron laptop that you have?

I had a similar one but with the Celeron M 1.4Ghz, and i only got about 1h 30m when i had all the settings on the lowest, and about 45m with everything on max.
 
okay

I will be using the computer for mainly college stuff. I am going for electrical engineering so I will have to be running some programs that take some speed to run. At school right now we use autodesk and we have 3.2 P4 with HT and a gig of ram, which runs pretty good. What is that equilavalent to on a Pentium M processor?
 
I can get about 2 hours with everything maxed out on my laptop, about 3 hours with the display on low and the processor locked on 800MHz(which really isn't noticably slower)
 
ryanheath2006 said:
I will be using the computer for mainly college stuff. I am going for electrical engineering so I will have to be running some programs that take some speed to run. At school right now we use autodesk and we have 3.2 P4 with HT and a gig of ram, which runs pretty good. What is that equilavalent to on a Pentium M processor?
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Around 2Ghz i would say.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
No, a 2.0Ghz PM is equivalant to a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4.
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really i didnt know that. the pentium m is the way to go. i also agree with omega in getting the intel core duo, they are becoming widely available and i have heard good things.
 
tweaker said:
Turion doesnt have much chance against the core duo.
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deffinetly not, its closer to the PM, however its still not as good as it. the only real advantage to the turion is that its 64 bit, but that doesnt make a big difference by todays standards, seeing how most apps are only 32 bit.
 
I've got a 1.73 M in my lappy and it runs autoCAD fine, I use Solid Edge for 3D CAD though, so the integrated gets a run for its money there, but for 2D CAD you'll probably be fine with anything
 
yea i wouldn't worry alot about the processor, id worry more about RAM size and HDD space... but battery power will also play a large factor too.
haha it won't do you any good if the laptop can do it super fast... if the battery runs out in the middle of a process :) lol
 
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The pentium m is a super fast chip, maybe not with the GHz but it loads very fast. I think the minimum ram you would want with a core duo sysem would be 1gb.
 
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