New Laptop - Which One Is Better?

[Tigranes]

Now that, is depressing.

[Magister Lajciak]

There ARE laptops capable of running Crysis on high settings:

 

http://banners.zepto.com/Trailers/hydra/index.html

 

$3850.. But it features an MXM slot, which means you can upgrade the GPU on it! Never saw that on a laptop before.

 

Erm, that is just, ehm, tiny bit, ehm, over my budget...

 

In any case, does anybody have any word on the AMD Turion processor I mentioned? If it is good, than I will end my ordeal and just go buy the computer without waiting any further.

[samm]

The Turion at 2.2GHz is certainly slower than a C2D at 2.2GHz (i.e. a P8400). I haven't read a review yet as I don't care for Laptops, but it should be well within reach of a 2GHz C2D. The structure width (65nm vs. 45nm) doesn't affect the performance per megahertz (aka. IPC, instructions per cycle), but the power consumption and possibly overclocking abilities.

 

AMD chipsets however are generally superior to Intel ones in terms of power consumption. That's why an Atom (with a ridiculously low power consumption) that is soldered on an Intel board (with ridiculously high power consumption) doesn't use less power than a Via or AMD processor way faster than it with higher power consumption but more efficient chipsets. But that's off topic

[Magister Lajciak]

The Turion at 2.2GHz is certainly slower than a C2D at 2.2GHz (i.e. a P8400). I haven't read a review yet as I don't care for Laptops, but it should be well within reach of a 2GHz C2D. The structure width (65nm vs. 45nm) doesn't affect the performance per megahertz (aka. IPC, instructions per cycle), but the power consumption and possibly overclocking abilities.

 

AMD chipsets however are generally superior to Intel ones in terms of power consumption. That's why an Atom (with a ridiculously low power consumption) that is soldered on an Intel board (with ridiculously high power consumption) doesn't use less power than a Via or AMD processor way faster than it with higher power consumption but more efficient chipsets. But that's off topic

 

Thanks samm! From what you say the performance does not seem that much worse and the chipset news is very encouraging. That means I will be buying the laptop in the next few hours unless somebody chimes in with comments that could make me reconsider.