I'm thinking of buying a laptop and I'm undecided in which processor to choose,a pentium m or an intel duo-core, of course buying a pentium M I'm gonna be able to get more stuff, but is the duo-core really worth it. Also, if you guys could give me some comments about the Intel Xeon Duo-Core I would appreciate it. Thanks

Jorge Fernandez

If you are buying a laptop, the Pentium M series are highly recommanded. The Xeon Dual-Core on the other hand is mostly design for work station and servers so they won't be avaliable in laptops... You can buy the Pentium 4 series for laptop, but they will be heavy and dissipate lots of heat and having low battery life. You can either choose single core Pentium M for doing word processing and internet or light gaming or dual-core for multi-tasking. If the price difference between a single core laptop and a dual core laptop is less than 50 at same spec except one is dual core and the other isn't, then get the dual-core for future proof. Otherwise, stick with single core unless you do lots of multi-tasking...

TMP-Man

Asus P5P800-SE
P4 506 2.66Ghz @ 4100Mhz 1.525v
Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 2000RPM FAN
1024MB DC Corsair DDR400
40GB 5400RPM/120GB 7200RPM HD
128MB Radoen 9500 mod 9700 @ 360/585

Pentium M is always a good choice for laptops, but don't forget the Turion 64 line of things. Since AMD's processors take less power and dissipate less heat on average, people have had quite a bit of luck adapting desktop processors into laptops with very little in the way of special adjustments.

Neither. go with an AMD Turion 64 M-37 aka 3700+. It flies.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7800GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI