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Always interesting discussions on this list. |
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I have two questions for everyone (not just the person I'm responding |
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How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? |
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Elsewhere (perhaps on this list on a different topic) someone |
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recommended not buying anything except for 64 bits (either AMD or Intel) |
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from now on. Do you agree, in particular regarding laptops? |
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Mike Myers wrote: |
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> Are you sure that it was a Pentium M and not a Pentium4-M or just the p4s? |
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> There is a signicant difference. With all the benchmarks I've seen, the |
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> Pentium Ms beat all the other processors in terms of power consumption and |
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> heat and in a lot of cases, performance. it even outdoes the P4s and the FX |
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> series amds. Tomshardware even has benchmarks claiming such a thing (which |
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> is odd since they're usually anti-intel). It is after all, a souped up P3 |
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> which allows it to have a faster clock speed than the p4s even when running |
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> 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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