I'm planning on buying a Laptop and I'm facing a very difficult
choice: Should I go with AMD's Turion 64 or Pentium M ?

I really like the idea of having a 64bit system so I will be able to
upgrade in the future (my laptop has to last at least 3 to 4 years), on
the other hand I hear that the Turion64 drains much more juice from the
battery than the Pentium M. I'm trying to find out if it is possible
to find a balance between in having the 64bit upgradeability of the
Turion64 and a good battery run time.

I am looking at the Compaq v2000z (Turion64) and the Compaq v2000
(Pentium M). Does anybody have any battery run time data/comparison
from these machines? Would I be losing a lot of battery time if I get
the v2000z (Turion64)? I would like to have some user impressions from
these machines, specially the Turion64 as it is harder to find info
about it on the net.

I already looked at this review:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2455 , but I would
like to have more info about it.

Thanks,

Anton

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:03:40 -0700, zip_56 wrote:

The Turion and the Pentium M are very close in terms of power consumption
so go with the Turion.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._12658,00.html

On 11 Aug 2005, zip wrote:

i've had one that lasted that long and a used one that must be about
that old now. it's a thinkpad 560z.


64bit doesn't mean much unless you have a buttload of ram. can you
put 4gb in these laptops? and, considering the expense and battery
drain, do you want to? if not, it's not worth worrying about.


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General Schvantzkoph wrote:


That's not the whole story though. The processor is only one power
consumer. Intel has taken some pains to put together a chipset and
peripherals to match the low power consumption of the Pentium M while AMD
has concentrated on the processors and left the chipsets to third parties.
Far as I know there aren't any AMD64 chipsets optimized for low power, so
even if the power consumption of the processors is the same the power
consumption of the machine as a while may higher for the AMD.

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On 11 Aug 2005 14:03:40 -0700, zip_56@hotmail.com wrote:

I have been pondering over the same question for some time now but
have just taken the plunge and got an Acer aspire 5024WMLi which is
Turion based. All I can say is I feel I have made the right choice -
it is by far the fastest laptop I have ever used - it copes with my
digital video editing with ease and this is probably the most
demanding thing I will ever use it for - and battery life is
sufficient for me at around 3 hours.

In my opinion - the Turion based systems are beter value for a given
specification.

I guess you know nothing about Turion at all, do you? and who said you need
4G of RAM to run 64 bit OS!
http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/articles/42/16/1/
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"Anonymous" <anonymous@inter.net> writes:
Maybe the os and cpu doesn't require 4g of ram, but I might have other
reasons for wanting it. Most laptops I've seen have a 2g limit or lower.

Also, every Turion laptop I know of uses the xpress 200 video chip,
which has a secret interface, not good for us Linux users.