centrino vs turion

[mortals]

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

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.

 

[mortals]

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!

 

[mortals]

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