It's likely that the AMD will be cheaper... maybe not at release, but very soon... AMD chips are always reliable, too. As far as performance per watt... I don't think that people really focus on that... When you go to buy a laptop, you look for the features you want, and performance per watt is usually not one of them, because it's unlikely that the small difference between these 2 chips will effect battery life much... not as much as the other features at least... I have a 2.6ghz P4 HT laptop that only gets about 3 hours of battery life, I know other laptops with similar performance that get much more battery life.. It's the 17" screen, video card, etc.. that make the big difference.
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hydrogen_wv @ May 18th 2006 12:25AM
It's likely that the AMD will be cheaper... maybe not at release, but very soon... AMD chips are always reliable, too.
As far as performance per watt... I don't think that people really focus on that... When you go to buy a laptop, you look for the features you want, and performance per watt is usually not one of them, because it's unlikely that the small difference between these 2 chips will effect battery life much... not as much as the other features at least... I have a 2.6ghz P4 HT laptop that only gets about 3 hours of battery life, I know other laptops with similar performance that get much more battery life.. It's the 17" screen, video card, etc.. that make the big difference.