I'm looking into buying a laptop. I have decide that if I get an intel processor it will be the pentium m in the centrino tech. However, I've started looking at amd's processors. Does anyone know how the Mobile Athlon 64 compares the the pentium M?

Athlon 64 for the desktp beats the p4, so this might too....anyway it has 64bit computing whereas P-m doesnt

Go with the Athlon 64, it's way better than the mobile pentium plus you can run Windows XP 64 when it comes out at the end of this year

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MSI KT8 NEO
Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0ghz
1.0 GB DDR PC3200
2X 160 GB HDD
Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128mb
( Core 425 MHz and Memory 380 MHz )

The pentium imo is the best x86 cpu you can buy, outperforming even a barton at the same ghz. Its only flaw is it sounds slow because it does a lot with so little ghz and intel has set their course down the "if it has a high ghz they will come" strategy with the p4 and celeron.

If the Pentium M became Intel's main desktop cpu it would be called the "AMD clone" lol

The pentium3 to pentium4 move brought on a reduction in instructions per clock cycle (ipc) along with making branch prediction more important and bus speed more important and cache more important, which led to amd relabelling their cpus since on a ghz vs ghz basis amd was much faster. The reason intel did this was a bet on the attractiveness of raw ghz to buyers. the pentium M with its huge cache and better branch prediction and reduced dependancy on both vs the p4 make it a superior design. All that is aside from its excellent power saving scheme.