I am afraid you're kinda outdated frog , amd recently launched " AMD Turion 64 processor "

featured in many HP laptops already ..


.AMD Turion 64 mobile technology is designed to be the most advanced family of 32- and 64-bit Windows® - compatible processors available for mobile PCs, allowing the freedom to work, relax and play virtually anywhere, anytime


and it's taking the centrino/Pentium D or whatever intel call it by STORM

But what if you want a different video card, memory, or hard drive? Things like that can make a difference in the performance. When you change parts like that the benchmarks could flip over into the others favor. Unless you want to clone the benchmark computer but come on... Who would want to do that? They usually use some mediocre computer for most of the tests. You really can't tell which will be best for you from their tests. You need to choose the best one for your configuration and not theirs... But I doubt any of us are experts so you should just try to configure you computer as best you can. That's what I mean, get it?

I have been a 100% AMD man for years.
Every machine I have is AMD except for my Opteron Server.
I got a really good price on it .

I understand that the Intel chips are a little faster for doing graphic
design, but for gaming the AMD's are faster.

ViriiGuy

Not always... I've seen some benchmarks and it seems like the processors can't be categorized as better for gaming. In the benchmarks I saw the Pentium processor was beating the AMD in half the tests. I forget what Pentium it was and which AMD X2 it was but the AMD came out costing way more and it was only a little better. They weren’t even using the best DDR2 ram for the Pentium processor either. If the Pentium processor was using 800MHZ instead of 533MHZ who knows how the results would have turned out. My point is that you can't choose one in general...

This thread will probably go to infinity and beyond because as we all know this is a battle that has been ongoing ever since AMD broke out and started competing with Intel. Me personally, I just like the fact that AMD is around to keep Intel in check with their prices. Not to mention the fact that they are really giving Intel a run for their money with the performance of processors today. I mean they got balls to release a line of 64 bit processors and cut Intel off at the chase. I think Intel may have the edge on true processoing power, and this will always be a factor when people make that important decision of buying a processor. One of AMD's major faults is probably their cooling. Everyone knows that they have had some problems in the past with processors overheating. But, as I said earlier the pricing that AMD holds is what made me buy my first AMD processor and has had me buying them ever since. They both have goods and bads and it seems the differences between the two are getting less and less as time goes by. All I can say is choose wisely Obi Wan and may the force be with you!

What do you suggest I buy?
amd 64 x2 6000+ 3.0ghz 2x1mb cache or the intel core to duo e6850 3.0ghz 4mb cache
the amd is 50 quid cheaper and I want something that will be easily upgradeable