centrino vs turion

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I'm looking at buying a laptop atm, but I'm not sure whether to go for a centrino or a turion.
The two I am looking at: Intel Pentium-M 740 Processor 1.73GHz and AMD Turion ML34 1.8GHz

Few things i've noticed:
(RAM) amd: ddr(333) intel: ddr2(533)
(CHIPSET) amd: ATI Mobility Radeon XPRESS 200 intel: Intel 915PM
(arch) amd: 32bit/64bit intel: 32bit
(GPU) amd: x700(256mb) intel: x700(128mb)

I've been reading that the intel has better battery life, but the turion has the option for 64bit possibly meaning it would be more future proof :confused:

I'm not sure about benchmark differences tho, looking at the chipsets and the ram, mainly the difference between DDR/DDR2, altho peeps say the amd isn't so dependant on FSB.

I didn't put this in the cpu section as there are more comparisons than just the cpu.
 
I've just noticed some more differences:

FSB/HTlink : intel:400 - 533 MHz FSB AMD: 1.0 GHz HyperTransport
Instruction Set: intel: MMX, SSE, SSE-2 AMD: MMX, SSE, SSE-2, SSE-3, 3DNow!
 
Correct me if I am wrong, but the turion's are also 64 bit enable cpu's, so making it potentially more future proof? (if there is such a concept)
 
the pentium-m generally gives slightly better performance and has longer battery life (only a little bit more).

the 64-bit sounds good, but few games and software works with it, support is awful and so is not used so much as will just be a long line of problems until vista comes out and then you would need to overhall anyway.
 
I've been looking around the net and some sites rate the centrino and others rate the AMD. The most in depth one I've read suggests to go for the turion unless you are really worried about battery power.

I might go for the turion, will mean I have the option of going for 64bit when it becomes more readily available. I can also test 64bit linux on it, possibly move onto 64bit compilation in visual studio :)
 
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