Amilo M vs Amilo A

[smaur]

Hi everyone, as I'm heading off to university soon I've sold my PC and I'm going to be buying a laptop as a replacement, I've found 2 that I want, both the same price and very similar specs, but one difference, one has a Intel Centrino 1.8ghz CPU and the other has A64 3700+.

Which would you lot recommend, does anybody know which chip provides longer battery life, I'm not all that fussed about the 64bit architecture as by the time it is fully implemented the chips will be slow.

I will be using the laptop for gaming for games such as HL2, and CS:S which I've seen running on my friends Amilo A and was happy with the performance, I also do not plan on replacing the laptop for a while.

I've posted the full specs below of both laptops, any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks alot.

AMILO M 1425 1.80GHz 80GB DVD+/-RW
- Intel® Centrino Processor 1.80GHz 2MB SLC
- 1024MB DDR RAM
- 80GB hard drive
- DVD+/-RW drive DDL
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB

AMILO A 1630 Athlon 64 3700+
- AMD XP Athlon 64 3700+ 1MB 2nd level cache
- 1024MB DDR RAM
- 80GB hard drive
- DVD+/-RW DDL drive
- ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card

[Goren]

in general, the Intel P-M processor will give you better battery life.. i havent seen too many athlons giving comparable lifespan as the centrinos. Thus go for the Amilo M.

[smaur]

Thanks for the quick response, I'd imagine the 2mb L2 cache would be quite beneficial to the performance.