How much better is a Turion64 in comparison to my Pentium M?

[TheGizmo]

I have two laptops right now... both are ultra portable, but one is clearly a much better build quality/weight, and the other is clearly a much better performing machine.. and well I'd like to know how much more a Turion could do vs a Pentium M.


Turion 64 1.8GHz (ML-32)
vs.
Pentium M 1.2 GHz LV - 1mb L2 cache

I don't game at all... the most vivid game I'd ever even attempt to run is maybe Quake 3 for about 5 minutes every month lol. That being said, I do a bit of video editing, and a bit of photo editing (Adobe Premiere, and Adobe Photoshop).. and a lot of Application based work (I have the entire Office Suite and Adobe everything open at the same time) so there is a good deal of multi-tasking going. Other than that I simply use the machine as a media box (movies, mp3s, and such).

So I'm wondering.... should I go for the P-M over the Turion64 since I like the portability of the P-M laptop over the Turion64....really how much better is the Turion64? Thanks for any advice.

 

[dexvx]

Are you sure its a Pentium-4M? I didnt think they made one THAT low. Sounds like its in SpeedStep mode. Regardless, it'll take something on the order of a 3Ghz P4-M or a 1.6Ghz Pentium-M/2MB to equal that performance.

 

[TheGizmo]

Originally posted by: dexvx
Are you sure its a Pentium-4M? I didnt think they made one THAT low. Sounds like its in SpeedStep mode. Regardless, it'll take something on the order of a 3Ghz P4-M or a 1.6Ghz Pentium-M/2MB to equal that performance.

oops you're totally right... its a Pentium M

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: TheGizmo

Originally posted by: dexvx
Are you sure its a Pentium-4M? I didnt think they made one THAT low. Sounds like its in SpeedStep mode. Regardless, it'll take something on the order of a 3Ghz P4-M or a 1.6Ghz Pentium-M/2MB to equal that performance.

oops you're totally right... its a Pentium M

You're comparing 2 very different laptops. Pentium-M/1MB LV, I'd imagine would be a much smaller laptop compared to something powered by the Turion-ML class. Performance wise, it'd probably scale linearly to CPU clock, so don't be surprised by a 50% speed bump in video/photo editting (mostly CPU bound).

 

[TheGizmo]

Originally posted by: dexvx

Originally posted by: TheGizmo

Originally posted by: dexvx
Are you sure its a Pentium-4M? I didnt think they made one THAT low. Sounds like its in SpeedStep mode. Regardless, it'll take something on the order of a 3Ghz P4-M or a 1.6Ghz Pentium-M/2MB to equal that performance.

oops you're totally right... its a Pentium M

You're comparing 2 very different laptops. Pentium-M/1MB LV, I'd imagine would be a much smaller laptop compared to something powered by the Turion-ML class. Performance wise, it'd probably scale linearly to CPU clock, so don't be surprised by a 50% speed bump in video/photo editting (mostly CPU bound).

Yea you're right the P-M machine is a bit smaller (IBM X40 - 2.7 lbs).. vs the Turion 64 (Averatec 2260 - 4.3 lbs) .. both are still very portable and I'm having a hard time trying to decide which one to keep I really like the IBM well because its an IBM and its so tiny with excellent build quality, the Averatec though has better specs and a nicer screen, while still small enough for me to consider it ultra portable.

You say that almost a 50% bump in video/photo editing by the Turion CPU... that seems pretty big, I may have to opt for that one. D'oh...its hard to chose one

 

[SparkyJJO]

I'd choose the Turion. 64-bit vs 32-bit and faster. In video editing you would see the difference.
Plus you said it has the nicer screen.

 

[Furen]

Personally, I like ultra portables. That said, since your tasks (Photoshop and Premiere) do benefit from a faster CPU I'd go for that.

 

[RichUK]

No way you got an IBM X40. I always wanted one of those. Although i do Project Management work for Fujitsu, we get IBM and Toshiba laptops. However the x40 back then was never on the list .