AMD Turion 64 X2 or Intel Core 2 Duo?

I'm getting a laptop and have narrowed down to two that are both £440 each

The first is an HP which is Amd Turion 64 X2 2 Ghz 1mb L2 cache but has a bigger hard drive, 2gb of ram it has can be upgraded and it's got a ATI Radeon X1250

The second is an Asus which is Intel Core 2 Duo 1.5 Ghz 2mb L2 cache but the 2gb ram can't be upgraded and it's got an ATI Radeon Xpress 1100

I haven't found any article that gives a definitive answer as to how much better or why Core 2 Duos are over Turion 64s and I was wondering which is the better laptop of the two?

HP *£100 Cashback* HP 6715b Laptop AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Tl-60 2.0g 15.4 Wsxga+ Wva 2048mb 2 Dimm 160gb 5400rpm Dvd+/-rw Dl Broadcom 802.11a/b/g Bt Fpr Tpm 1yr Wrty Xp Pro Office 2007 Ready - Ebuyer (£100 cashback)

Asus Asus X51RL-AP999 Laptop Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 120GB 2048MB DVD-RW WLAN ATI XPRESS X1100 128M Share VRAM 15.4" Vista Home Premium 2 year warranty - Ebuyer

Thanks for any help you can give!

Personally I would go for Intel CPU's over AMD as they are less power hungry. Oh, its not a Acer but an Asus :)

Any reason why your going with eBuyer for these? Dell do some good laptops in their Vostro range too :thumbsup:

33% more CPU clock should make up for any architectural advantage the Intel has. Better graphics too? Seems a clear win to the AMD system to me on performance, though the flip side is you might lose on battery life.

For the money, Dell's systems seem to me to be a rip-off. You get a similar specced system for around 400... but then they forgot to tell you that you need to add VAT and a £60 delivery charge and suddenly it's aroun £600

I am open to suggestions of other systems though!

I forgot to mention that juice is not an issue as it's going to be more of a 'tidy' home PC that travels around the house and in the garden rather than anything thats going to be on the move a lot.

Of those you would be hard pressed not to pick the HP/AMD system its better in all the right areas (CPU, GFX and RAM upgrade) only benefits for the Asus are longer warranty and potentially Vista rather than XP.