Which is in your opinion the better purchase?

[Jognt]

viper, there is a HUGE difference between \"dedicated 9700\" which means it has a dedicated GFX CHIP, and \"9700 with Dedicated ram\" which means it has its own gDDR ram

big-al, Intel CPU\'s nowadays are hotter than AMD\'s and both intel and AMD have pretty decent laptop chips

and as SC said, if you\'re planning on using it for loads of processing tasks, and you will upgrade to a 64-bit OS in the future, then maybe a 64-bit CPU would be better, but you can also get the centrino, and upgrade it to an EMT64 enabled CPU in the future