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quick search the 64 hs the edgeNetRyder said:Plenty of benchmarks comparing the Pentium M to the Athlon 64 (and Pentium 4) here on AnandTech:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2129&p=7
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When someone says games, why do people always think first person shooters? Most games are not fps, and many gamers don't play fps.
Take a look at two laptops:
Dell 9300: 2.0Ghz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM, 80GB HD, DVD DL burner, GeForce 6800, widescreen, wireless. $2200 after dell coupons.
Gateway 7426GX: 2.4Ghz Athlon 64 3700, 1GB of RAM, 100GB HD, DVD DL burner, Radeon 9600, widescreen, wireless. $1400 at Best Buy.
For first person shooters, the dell will clearly outperform the gateway by a wide margin. In just about everything else, the Gateway will spank the Dell. Not by a lot, but spank it it will. The Athlon 64 3700 is probably the most powerfull mobile processor on the market. You can drop the price on that Dell by a couple of hundred dollars and settle for a 1.8Ghz Dothan, but that will only widen the performance gap.
So...if you're not a first person shooter junky...why spend $800 dollars more on a slower laptop that will give you more frames per second in Doom 3??
That said, the 9600 in that Gateway can play Half Life 2 at native screen resolution at over 40 frames per second average without antialiasing. It can play Doom 3 on medium quality with all effects except antialiasing at good frame rates...usually about 25 to 30 fps at 1024x768.
What this means is that the 9600 can handle modern games and future games for many years (though perhaps not future first person shooters), and the Athlon 64 3700 paired with a gig of RAM can handle future operating systems and applications for longer than the life expectancy of a laptop.