I'm lost in CPUs!

Morning,

I'd say I'm pretty up to date on CPU in desktops. But I'm in the market for a laptop now - and I'm a bit bewildered by what the current cutting edge is with Mobile CPUs.

I have about £1000 to spend on a laptop - and I don't know how to narrow down the choices because I'm not sure which CPU to go for. Is the Athlon XP -M as powerful or not as powerful as the Athlon 64. Do some laptops use the desktop version of the Athlong 64 chip - and is this a good idea? How does the Intel Pentium M weigh up alongside a similar Athlon XP-M or 64?

Basically - I'm asking what processor I should be looking for that gives best bang for bucks. I'm not (that) bothered about battery life and I want my laptop for general purposes (bit of gaming, bit of work, bit of internet, bit of music etc, bit of wireless networking).

Can anyone help...

Oh - and while I'm at it - can I be a bit cheeky and ask for recommendations of good alround laptops for around the £1k mark

get a pentium-M


it has the best performance, the best battery life, the best efficiency, and the best temperatures.... all very important things in a laptop...

all Centrino laptops have a Pentium-M

also a Pentium 4 Mobile and a Pentium-M are not the same thing

What he said :)

I have a laptop comin in this morning, P-M, I'm excited :)

I have a Pentium-M, I have used it for about a year now, before that I had a P4 laptop, the Pentium-M is clocked .5ghz lower than the P4 I had, but the Pentium-M performs much better and has the benifits that kpxgq said.