Turion Notebook

[itxweather]

Hello,

Does anyone know if a Turion Notebook PC, such as an ACER Aspire 5002LM is a better buy than a Celeron Notebook PC, such as an ACER 2304WLMi?.

I'd like to run a Linux distro on either and have not been keen on buying a Celeron desktop or notebook PC.

The latter can be bought at quite a competitive price from eBuyer at the moment (correct as of 29/04/05) but the ACER 5002LM is approximately £95.00+VAT more than the Acer 2304WLMi and has a 64-Bit AMD Turion low-power Processor installed. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

On the subject of the ACER 5002LM does anyone know what reseller in the UK sells this for the most competitive price?. Don't think that there are many resellers that have any Turion notebooks available to buy. Think that CCLonline are one of the cheapest sources but might very well be wrong.

Thank you in advance for any help.

 

[imported_Kensai]

It is. Turion > Celeron

 

[fbrdphreak]

Overall Turion's will be a much better performer than Celeron's. The question is battery life. Celeron M's perform slightly worse than Pentium M's (usually 2.5-3 hours w/6-cell). The only information on Turion batt life is from a cursory PCMag review where the Acer AS5000 lasted 3 hours 15 min on BatteryMark, but no info on the battery :roll:
I'll be sure to post once we the Turion arrives

 

[Jassi]

Look here

Short answer? (IMHO) Yes, Turion is much better than a Celeron D/ M for a laptop.

 

[Fenuxx]

Turions are much better than any type of Celeron. More cache, more speed. You do the math

 

[itxweather]

Thank you to everyone who's replied to my original topic.
Think that a Turion is a better buy than a Celeron M.

Am I right in saying that WinXP 64-bit version should be able to run on a Turion 64-bit notebook PC?.

Thank you.

Best Regards.

 

[fbrdphreak]

You are correct. Unfortunately, right now driver availability is limited so all of the features might not work.