Currently this is completely wrong, please provide the source of this information.

check this

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As for the mobile CPU test here is the answer you want

decide for yourself

Im thinking of getting a pentium for a laptop but i truly want amd performance, the only problem is that with using a laptop it will get hot and burn me . So i'll end up getting a Centrino..

Does anyone know how an apple powerbook 1.5ghz compares to a centrino 2ghz?

I wouldn't know from experience. But and apple is very diffrent from a Windows computer, both in what they can do and how they do it, from what I understand the apple would stand up quite well if you were running something like photoshop on both, but you know if you need your computer for a specific purpose better check to see if the apple can fulfill

The real question is: what are you going to be using it for?

Apple is switching to Intel Chips starting in less than 2 months. So the PowerPC versus Intel debate is over. Now I've been using Apple notebooks (G3 iBook and G4 PowerBook) for the past four years. I love them. Great battery life, good performance, easy to use and other than I had one of those iBooks with the logic board problems, good solid reliablity.

In the laptops, the thing that matters to me is battery life and heat. In those two catagories, I don't think AMD is close to touching Intel.

Furthermore, if your just running office apps, surfing the net, and maybe light gaming, a 64-bit processor isn't going to buy you much.

Back a number of years ago I worked at an engineering firm as the IT tech support guru. We ran on Sun systems. We purchased three 64-bit UltraSparc workstations and they were horrible at running applications. We quickly sent them back and got in 32-bit Sparc systems and everything was great. Why? The applications were designed for 32-bit and ran much smoother and better on the 32-bit versus the 64-bit systems.

Now when we did simulations, we would send that to 64-bit UltraSparc servers to number crunch, which they did outperform the 32-bit systems.

So while lots of people are hyping AMD because they are "64-bit" and not Intel, I'm still telling people to buy what ever is cheaper, usually intel, because for 95% of the PC users, 64-bits is not going to do diddley.

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This post has been edited by john6000: May 20 2008, 04:09 PM

For me centrino is the best...
Because of it's performance and low temperature...

Yeah, i have Pentium M 1.6 Ghz Banias. 2 YEARS AGO WAS REALLY GOOD cpu. Nowadays you cannot miss if you buy new Pentiums M. I would personaly wait for Yonah cpu.

It has always been two things for me when it comes to processors. If I will be buidling desktop system my priority would be AMD, in terms of price and performance it's really right in there however for notebooks I still will not touch AMD, at least for now, notebook PC's are prebuilt which means you have a limited resources to work on your system when problems such as thermal issues arise.

Same here, if I am building a desktop PC I would prefer to use an AMD chip because I feel I get a lot more performance for the same amount of money. And eventhough I do have an AMD laptop, I think that if I had the choice (the model laptop I bought only came with an althon xp) I would definately choose a laptop that is a centrino because of the power and heat advantages of it over the regular amd laptop chips. Even the features that are supposed to help with power on my amd laptop don't work correctly. My processor actually gets clocked down when I plug it into the wall and runs at full speed when unplugged haha.