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Are you sure that it was a Pentium M and not a Pentium4-M or just the |
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p4s? There is a signicant difference. With all the benchmarks I've |
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seen, the Pentium Ms beat all the other processors in terms of power |
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consumption and heat and in a lot of cases, performance. it even |
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outdoes the P4s and the FX series amds. Tomshardware even has |
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benchmarks claiming such a thing (which is odd since they're usually |
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anti-intel). It is after all, a souped up P3 which allows it to have a |
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faster clock speed than the p4s even when running with fewer ghz. |
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Lord Sauron wrote: |
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>http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=4611686018425155337&storeId=10000001&langId=-1&categoryId=2059153&dualCurrId=1000073&catalogId=-840 |
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>That's the cheapest X60 with Core Duo. HOWEVER: |
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>I'd still highly recommend a AMD Turion. Well... I'd even more |
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>strongly suggest just waiting, all you prospective laptop buyers. A |
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>Dual Core Turion64 is coming *very* soon. The Turion64s murdered the |
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>Pentium M processors in not just speed but power efficiency. My |
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>Athlon1400 could kill a Pentium 4 2.4GHz any time. My Athlon64 can |
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>destroy the fastest non-dual core Pentium 4 (extreme editions exempted |
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>- I don't know anyone with one to compare the performance with). Acer |
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>makes good laptops with AMD chips. |
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>Just for laughs, Intel just released a new Pentium4 Ext.Ed. (Dual |
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>core, 955) to counter the FX-60 from AMD. PC World tested the chip... |
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> the FX-60 was ~30% faster while being about $30 cheaper. |
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>Okay, I'll stop evangelising AMD now. Thanks for listening (it makes |
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>me feel somewhat important). |
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