Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

[Lord Sauron]

http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=4611686018425155337&storeId=10000001&langId=-1&categoryId=2059153&dualCurrId=1000073&catalogId=-840

That's the cheapest X60 with Core Duo.  HOWEVER:

I'd still highly recommend a AMD Turion.  Well...  I'd even more
strongly suggest just waiting, all you prospective laptop buyers.  A
Dual Core Turion64 is coming *very* soon.  The Turion64s murdered the
Pentium M processors in not just speed but power efficiency.  My
Athlon1400 could kill a Pentium 4 2.4GHz any time.  My Athlon64 can
destroy the fastest non-dual core Pentium 4 (extreme editions exempted
- I don't know anyone with one to compare the performance with).  Acer
makes good laptops with AMD chips.

Just for laughs, Intel just released a new Pentium4 Ext.Ed. (Dual
core, 955) to counter the FX-60 from AMD.  PC World tested the chip...
 the FX-60 was ~30% faster while being about $30 cheaper.

Okay, I'll stop evangelising AMD now.  Thanks for listening (it makes
me feel somewhat important).

On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
> > On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com> wrote:
> > > Hmm.. seems to me, you do like your laptops big and heavy and bulky. :-)
> > > IIRC, you had a P4 chip in your last laptop? (was that you?)
> >
> > Yep, except that 'luggable' incurred severe lid cracking last summer
> > and I had to replace it.  So I purchased a 2.1Ghz P-M 6lb notebook to
> > use for about 6 months until the first Core Duo came available.  That
> > was a nice notebook, even with a 15.4" screen, I found it to be very
> > portable.
>
> You have no idea what portable is.  One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch
> X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to!
>
> > This is my first notebook with a 17" screen, which I really do
> > like...except when I have to carry it! That's why I call it a
> > 'luggable'. ;->
>
> Just a word of the wise from many experienced laptop users:
>
> If you want to take it with you, less than 5 pounds is a requirement.
> You may say you're strong, and I believe you.  However, even the
> world's strongest man would still have to admit that 13 pounds isn't a
> good idea.
>
> Plus, think of it this way:
>
> There are exceptions to the road-warrior lighter-is-better rule, of
> course, but not many.  If you *need* the power, why not just
> SSH/RDesktop into a bigger, much more expensive desktop and leave your
> poor laptop battery alone?  That's what I do.  I have the tiny IBM
> X40: not very fast.  But then check out my desktop rig: AMD Athlon64
> 3000+ 2.0GHz Socket 754 1.0GHz FSB w/Hypertransport, 512Megs of RAM,
> 10,000RPM WD SATA150 Raptor (76GB, I'm not rich enough for the new
> 150GB) and a killer nVidia GeForce 6800 AGP 8x w/512MB of GDDR2 video
> RAM (embedded OpenGL 1.5/DirectX9 processing).
>
> It's my baby - I raised it from just a little Athon K6 900MHz!  I
> built it myself out of a hulking abandoned server case.  When I get
> home, do I crunch numbers on the X40?  No.  I use it for what it's
> good for: email, office work, y'know, editing stuff.  Compile on the
> big machine and you're home free.
>
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