<p>Which is the better buy for a laptop? The Core Duo or Pentium M? How much difference in battery consumption is there?</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know if it is possible to overclock Dell Laptops?</p>
<p>Id go with the core duo. Battery consumption is about the same and the core duo is a little bit faster.</p>
<p>Core Duo is way better</p>
<p>Core Duo is the latest technology. Note that they are replacing the Pentium M with the Core Solo, which is still less powerful than Core Duo. For long-term use go with Core Duo.</p>
<p>Core Duo...more up to date, faster, better in every respect.</p>
<p>What about a Turion?</p>
<p>Core Duo Core Duo Core Duo</p>
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Turion is just about the same as Pentium M or Core Solo. Core Duo still beats it.</p>
<p>If you're going to buy one soon, wait a few months. Core Duo prices will be dropping May 29th.</p>
<p>Turion is a good choice if you want to run 64bit windows vista in the future. it is the only mobile 64bit chip on the market. I could go into the technical advantages of the turion vrs the core duo but it really would be a waste of time. the core duo has the turion beat because of the dual cores in speed so get the core duo.</p>
<p>I heard that the Core Duo was better.</p>
<p>why does windows vista have to come out in jan, 6 months after i get my fricking laptop?!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr</p>
<p>(sorry, had to get that off my chest)</p>
<p>Yea I won't buy until like July so I hope prices will drop by then. I guess I'll go with the Core Duo</p>
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<p>The first versions of these things always contains various bugs and whatnot. It's better to just wait a while for them to release patches for everything before buying it. It's not like it contains anything that you need (or at least can't emulate on Windows XP).</p>
<p>don't get Windows Vista</p>
<p>2000 > XP > feces > the rest of Windows</p>
<p>for now, duo core is better. However, most people will not take advantage of dual core's function. P-M is good enough for average computer user</p>
<p>Windows Vista won't be a stable OS (relatively speaking) until 2008.</p>
<p>Core Duo is better, as others have said.</p>
<p>two words: core DUO</p>
<p>dual core Turion, ships in May</p>
<p>Is the core duo more than the p-m? If so, and cost is a consideration, go with the p-m.</p>