What is the Turion Technology?
Turion technology is AMD new platform to compete against Intel’s Centrino technology. However, AMD is not requiring specific CPU – Chipset – Wireless combo to be claimed as Turion technology, unlike it’s counterpart at Intel. Due to this reason, Turion technology battery life varies widely depends on the selected combo by the manufacters. Usually Turion technology requires the following: (1) AMD 64 Turion Processor (a) ML family: 1.6Ghz – 2.4 Ghz TDP: 35W (b) MT family: 1.6Ghz – 2.2 Ghz TDP: 25W (2) AMD Supported Chipsets (integrated graphics) (a) ATI (b) Via (c) Sis (3) Wireless and Bluetooth (optional) connectivity (a) Broadcom (b) Atheros (d) Others For Option (1) and (2) Low power consumption should be your main priority. (1) It’s very hard to find a MT-based laptop for some unknown reason. But if you were to look into low budget laptop, and does not see a need for 64-bit computing in the near future, it might be a better idea to look for Sempron Mobile CPU for faster speed. Ie. It
