Turion Vs. Centrino

[jbyrtus]

Hey guys:

I am looking at a laptop for school. My budget is around $1000. I have been "shopping" for a few months now and have come across something that I lack knowledge of currently.


I was pricing models at a local box store and the processors were different: Turion from AMD and Centrino from Intel.

I am pretty familiar with the advantages of Centrino due to Intel's advertising.

Turion is new to me. Comparisons? Pros/Cons?

Models were an HP DV4000 and a Compaq (forget model): essentially same thing. 512mb, 60gb, DVD DL+-. each were around a "k."

Thanks to any help!

 

[fbrdphreak]

Give me say....36 hours (maybe less) and you'll have a definitive answer to anything and everything you wanted to know about Turion & Centrino 🙂

 

[Soccerman06]

Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

???????????

 

[vtohthree]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

???????????

I was thinking the same "???????" I'm no expert but...

clarification:

The Centrino is a package, banias cpu combined with 802.11b. Now with dothan + g band. The pentium M is the label for the banias and dothan platform...kind of like the prescott is known as a pentium 4.

As for the Sempron, that is a whole different animal we're talking about, it competes in the entry level computing alongside with Intel's Celeron.

Anyways, just clearing up the obvious, getting facts straight, etc.... cheers!

:thumbsup:

 

[Soccerman06]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

???????????

oh common buddy, youve been in the game long enough, you should know which processor is comparable to another.

AMD Turion is a scaled down (watt-wise, and someother things) A64 for use in the mobile market.

P-M is Intel's solution to everything mobile and performance

AMD Sempron is a low powered, cheap processor that was made for the low-end

Intel Centino (sometimes Centrino-M) is a low powered, cheap processor made for the low-end

Turion vs P-M
Sempron vs Centrino

Take the Turion because it will be faster in everything, compared to the Centrino

 

[Imaginer]

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

???????????

oh common buddy, youve been in the game long enough, you should know which processor is comparable to another.

AMD Turion is a scaled down (watt-wise, and someother things) A64 for use in the mobile market.

P-M is Intel's solution to everything mobile and performance

AMD Sempron is a low powered, cheap processor that was made for the low-end

Intel Celeron (sometimes Celeron-M) is a low powered, cheap processor made for the low-end

Turion vs P-M (aka Centrino w/ Intel WiFi solution + NB)
Sempron vs Celeron
Take the Turion because it may be faster in everything, compared to the Centrino but have a bit less battery life in comparision

Fixed

 

[Soccerman06]

Originally posted by: Imaginer

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

???????????

oh common buddy, youve been in the game long enough, you should know which processor is comparable to another.

AMD Turion is a scaled down (watt-wise, and someother things) A64 for use in the mobile market.

P-M is Intel's solution to everything mobile and performance

AMD Sempron is a low powered, cheap processor that was made for the low-end

Intel Celeron (sometimes Celeron-M) is a low powered, cheap processor made for the low-end

Turion vs P-M (aka Centrino w/ Intel WiFi solution + NB)
Sempron vs Celeron
Take the Turion because it may be faster in everything, compared to the Centrino but have a bit less battery life in comparision

Fixed

Who cares its Intel

 

[vtohthree]

well done Imaginer, haha, nice to see you in this thread too

:thumbsup:[/quote]

 

[roguerower]

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: Imaginer

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

???????????

oh common buddy, youve been in the game long enough, you should know which processor is comparable to another.

AMD Turion is a scaled down (watt-wise, and someother things) A64 for use in the mobile market.

P-M is Intel's solution to everything mobile and performance

AMD Sempron is a low powered, cheap processor that was made for the low-end

Intel Celeron (sometimes Celeron-M) is a low powered, cheap processor made for the low-end

Turion vs P-M (aka Centrino w/ Intel WiFi solution + NB)
Sempron vs Celeron
Take the Turion because it may be faster in everything, compared to the Centrino but have a bit less battery life in comparision

Fixed

Who cares its Intel

Because you're giving the OP crappy info. Get the facts straight before you start talking.

 

[ShellGuy]

I think he had Direa of the mouth today. But yes the above thread has been fixed. Also if i remember correctly, the Turon is a 64bit chip the P-m isn't. but AMD for the majority only comes with ATI cards and the Pm comes with Nvidia.


Will G.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: ShellGuy
I think he had Direa of the mouth today. But yes the above thread has been fixed. Also if i remember correctly, the Turon is a 64bit chip the P-m isn't. but AMD for the majority only comes with ATI cards and the Pm comes with Nvidia.


Will G.

You can get them with both. x800XT mobility's generally come only with P4's, 6800U mobile chips too.

 

[fbrdphreak]

For those who are still unclear about Centrino, Pentium M, and Turion; all your answers have cometh :laugh:
http://www.laptoplogic.com/news/08/30/2005/459/0/

 

[ShellGuy]

Last time i heard only one maker had the turon and a Nvidia card and that was Voodoo.


Will G.

PS. Please link if im wrong.

 

[piasabird]

For power usage it is hard to beet P4-M.

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: piasabird
For power usage it is hard to beet P4-M.

Nah, I'm pretty sure a non mobile P4 can kill the P4-M in power usage.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: piasabird
For power usage it is hard to beet P4-M.

😕

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: ShellGuy
Last time i heard only one maker had the turon and a Nvidia card and that was Voodoo.


Will G.

PS. Please link if im wrong.

I don't even think they had Turion, just A64 X2's & FX's

For $5K+ and $200 shipping :Q

 

[The Linuxator]

I wish IBM made R50e laptops with Turion , but the reality is no : Cries about his soon to arrive with a 2mb cache 1.6ghz pentium-M R50e;

 

[minofifa]

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: Imaginer

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

???????????

oh common buddy, youve been in the game long enough, you should know which processor is comparable to another.

AMD Turion is a scaled down (watt-wise, and someother things) A64 for use in the mobile market.

P-M is Intel's solution to everything mobile and performance

AMD Sempron is a low powered, cheap processor that was made for the low-end

Intel Celeron (sometimes Celeron-M) is a low powered, cheap processor made for the low-end

Turion vs P-M (aka Centrino w/ Intel WiFi solution + NB)
Sempron vs Celeron
Take the Turion because it may be faster in everything, compared to the Centrino but have a bit less battery life in comparision

Fixed

Who cares its Intel

because it's just wrong soccermom. I would (and will get) a centrino based laptop for my next school computer unlessi hear some great things from AMD's mobile chip. For desktops i will stick with AMD, but for laptops Intel seems to be on top right now

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Turion is suppose to be the the P-M competitor, the Sempron is the Centrino's competitor. Get the Turion hands down.

???????????

oh common buddy, youve been in the game long enough, you should know which processor is comparable to another.

AMD Turion is a scaled down (watt-wise, and someother things) A64 for use in the mobile market.

P-M is Intel's solution to everything mobile and performance

AMD Sempron is a low powered, cheap processor that was made for the low-end

Intel Centino (sometimes Centrino-M) is a low powered, cheap processor made for the low-end

Turion vs P-M
Sempron vs Centrino

Take the Turion because it will be faster in everything, compared to the Centrino

You've got to be kidding, or at least very confused.

Centrino is not a processor.

Celeron is Intel's budget chip, just as the Sempron is AMD's.

Turion vs Pentium-M
Sempron-M vs Celeron-M

 

[Robroy11976]

Hi guys, i thought Turion will always be better than Pentium M??? Isn't it?? Because of it's next generation 64bit computing compare to Pentium M that only runs on 32bit???

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
I wish IBM made R50e laptops with Turion , but the reality is no : Cries about his soon to arrive with a 2mb cache 1.6ghz pentium-M R50e;

Lenovo is in talks with AMD right now.......
http://www.laptoplogic.com/news/08/24/2005/448/0/

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

ok. just to clear things up.

Pentium-M is faster at most games than turion
Turion is faster at most "workstation" type apps (excel, science modeling stuff, etc) than Pentium-M

Semprons that are s754/s939 (thus based off the a64 cpus) will be comparable to the celeron-Ms (which are based off the Pentium-M cpus)

Semprons based off of the AXP cpus (socket A) are gonna pwn the celerons based of the P4 cpus(socket 478, maybe lga775)

Now what I just said was only for performance. Battery life wise, from best to worst: Pentium-M, Turion, sempron-m, mobile athlon 64, celeron m, athlon xp-m, DTR athlon 64, DTR athlon xp, pentium 4-m, DTR pentium 4

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
I wish IBM made R50e laptops with Turion , but the reality is no : Cries about his soon to arrive with a 2mb cache 1.6ghz pentium-M R50e;

Lenovo is in talks with AMD right now.......
http://www.laptoplogic.com/news/08/24/2005/448/0/

God bless your soul , it's good to finally hear some good news after a long time of hearing BS.

My dream Thinkpad had always been a Turion 64, ATI GPU, in a T / R series IBM Thinkpad running Fc4 x86-64 and Windows Xp pro x86-64 & i386, hold on a second : wipes his mouth;. that would be the most perfect combination this planet has to offer me on laptops.
But when I ordered my R50e I had plans for it to be used strictly for Programming ( Visual Basic.net, Java...etc) running Openoffice 2.0, simple music editing and one of the main reason I got m Thinkpad is because of the notorious reputation that Thinkpads have Linux compatability wise.
I plan on dual booting Win-XP pro & FC4 on it and I have my fingers crossed in hopes that the Intel wi-fi chipset that is integrated, and has native Linux kernel 2.6+ support would work out of the box, and no hassle( I have yet to see a laptop running wi-fi on Linux sucessfully :brokenheart: , but maybe now the tables will turn 😎 ).