Buying a laptop today (not 2,3 or 6 months from now):
Being an AMD shareholder I started out shopping for a Turion ML or MT laptop. I was looking for something with 15.4" WXGA, DVD RW and a decent video card (no intergrated graphics).
I checked Future Shop, Best Buy, Costco, The Source and all the local smaller retailers and what I found was mostly Semprons and Turion ML 30, ML 32 and a few ML 37.
Here's a current example from Future Shop:
HP DV5130 $1,400 can ($1,230 USD)
15.4" WXGA Brightview
Turion ML-37 2.0 Ghz
120 Gb @ 4200 rpm
1 GB ram
6 cell battery
128 MB ATI 200M video
XP Media center
Verses Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop $1,219 can ($1,072 USD)
15.4" XGA TrueLife
T2300 (1.66 GHz Core Duo)
80 GB 5400 rpm hard drive
1 GB Ram
6 cell battery
ATI X1300 128 MB video
XP Media Center
The 2 Ghz Turion will be faster on some applications but for the price difference the Dell could easily be upgraded to a 2 GHz Duo Core.
Right or wrong, I starting thinking about how my existing desktop computer chokes on simple multitasking such as a virus scan or writing a DVD while surfing the internet and I decided that two cores (within a similar or lower power envelope) would probably be much more beneficial than 64 bits on a single core.
So I ended up buying a Dell laptop.
