Intel

 

Athalon by far. Celeron is a piece of crap. You can look at Athalon M chips if you want longer battery life.

 

celeron's are shite

 

Do you mean "Centrino" or "Celeron"

Celeron do not have L2 Cache or very little like 128kb.
DO NOT BUY Celeron unless all your going to do is surf the net and check emails.


Centrino have 802.xx built in, way better battery life (4.5h in most cases), and has L2 cache ranging from 512kb - 2mb, I think 1mb is standard in the new Intel M.

There should be tons of deals out Now - Mid January.
Go to http://www.notebookreview.com for detailed reviews on all sorts of Laptop brands. I suggest a lightweight Toshiba, I have the m505 gateway and like it a lot!

 

Seriously this comparing Intel and AMD is like apples and oranges,.... well, usually.

This is a clear win by AMD. and I still think no matter what speed comparison, having 64bit over 32bit is better.

Also, AMD runs shorter Clock Cycles, whats that mean? well its tough to explain. But see that 3000+ that means if it was a Intel chip it would be rated at 3.0ghz, not the 1.8ghz its rated at now.

AMD runs slower, Intel Runs a Longer race.

 

the athlon64 is the clear performer. They have low power consumption, too.

The celeron is garbage, the celeronD (which has more cache but a longer pipeline) is crap.

Then, there is the Celeron M, which is based on the Pentium M. It's actually a decent chip that should perform well...I think the Celeron M has 512K of cache.

There are 2 versions of the athlon64 3000+. There is one at 1.8Ghz with 1MB of cache and a 2.0Ghz with 512K. They are both great.

Why is the athlon so fast? It has a short pipeline, while the P4 has a long one...12 vs 31 stages. Why are long pipes bad? If there is a misprediction, the whole pipe is flushed, which slows things down badly. That's why the P4/celeron needs cache to perform. The athlon doesn't really need a lot of cache as it has good prediction and a shorter pipeline. The P4/Celeron also has horrid latency.

 

Oh oh, wrong branch...