AMD Turion vs Core 2 Duo

why is AMD cheaper than intel?

if i get a 1.8 ghz core 2 duo, its quite a bit more expensive than the 1.8 ghz turion.

I am only going to use my notebook for the typical use. Web chat and webcam, ms office for school work, surfing the net, listening to music, and loading pictures from my camera.

Also another question, would it be better to get 2gig of ram and a weaker processor, or 1gig ram and stronger processor for my purposes? From what i understand from a friend, he said that the processor isnt as important because i am not doing heavy duty things on it. Just multitasking and therefore i should get more ram and a little bit weaker processor.

 

Core 2 Duo is more expensive probably because it's just better CPU in terms of performance and battery life and probably because Core 2 Duo has knocked out Turion recently.

Otherwise, your friend is right, you would be fine with Turion for regular stuff... (which Turion exactly?)

I personally would not buy Turion today but that's me, I'm not so objective though

If you're gonna buy a notebook, you can try filling out the FAQ.

 

The Turion X2 series is more than fast enough for what you're doing. A Turion X2, 2GB RAM, and skipping the Intel Centrino marketing tax makes sense. The C2D is a little faster, depending on whether your applications can take advantage of the massive L2 caches Intel uses to compensate for their lack of an integrated memory controller and HyperTransport.

 

Go with the AMD chip as suggested above. The Core 2 Duo is definitely more power efficient, generally faster, and offers the best bang for the buck---you can't compare the clockspeeds of the two brands directly, a higher Ghz processor can easily be a lot slower depending on how it processes information---but since you're not doing anything CPU intensive, you're better off saving some money and going with the AMD. 1GB is more than enough for your particular needs in any version of Windows you get.

 

Iv recently found a good notebook, but its got an AMD Turion MT34 (1.8Ghz; 1MB L2 Cache; 25W) . Should i just run away scared or is this something which can measure up to a core 2 duo?

 

The Turion was designed to compete with the Centrino (aka Pentium M), so the MT34 will not be able to compete with Intel's current C2D. If you've got C2D performance in mind you don't want to pay the extra money, consider the Core Duo as your first choice and the Turion X2 as your second choice. These two CPUs are competing generations and while the Core Duo does perform better, it is more expensive than the X2. Currently AMD doesn't have a competitor for the C2D.

 

the turion x2 is the one i was thinking of getting...so i guess ill get the 2gb ram with the turion x2? i often have many programs open and thats y i am going to get the 2 gig ram...i dont want to wait for things to load...cause i am very impatient.

 

For the uses you have stated i.e. no very cpu intensive tasks the X2 will have very litttle if any noticeable difference. I noticed no difference in xp based tasks between a P4 2.2 and a 2.8. I'd save the money, personally.

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Yeah, grab the X2. If you use a lot of programs at once, go for the 2GB of RAM. That will also allow you to upgrade to Vista without a problem.

 

Well, but just consider that whatever CPU you get, you will be stuck with it. As it is for the RAM, you can get 1 Gb now and more later (Ram lower price fairly fast)

 

i had da same doubt thnx for da help