Acer Extensa: Athlon 64 X2 TK-57 or Pentium Dual-Core T3200?

Hi I am planning to purchase a laptop. I have the option of either getting the AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-57 model ($350) or the Intel Pentium Dual-Core T3200 model ($400).

Is there a significant difference in the performance (speed, power consumption?) between these two processors? Should I spend the extra $50 for the Intel processor?

By the way, do you guys know of a good website to compare processors between different brands (e.g. AMD vs Intel)?

Thanks.

 

The performance difference is virtually un-notable between intel and AMDs. and AMDS usualy only shine brighter in benchmarks.

I would personally go with an AMD but the choice is yours if you want to spend an extra £50 for somthing that wont make that much difference in speed

 

I agree. neither processors are going to win any benchmarks.. they will preform very similarly. in all likely hood the AMD will have better GPU.

 

The TK57 is much worse than the newer Centrino2 3200. It may have been comparable with the older cheap Intel CPUs, but now the 3200 is simply the better deal.

 

The t3200 isnt for centrino 2. It has a 667mhz fsb still and 1mb l2 cache.

 

But it's coupled with the new Centrino2 motherboards and X4500 gpu.