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On Tuesday 07 November 2006 05:18, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm in the market for a new laptop. I sold mine about a year ago |
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> and it's time to get a new one. I will run both Linux and Win XP on |
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> the machine. The Linux workload will not be anything substantial but |
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> when in Win XP I have a program that I'll be running that is very |
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> compute bound on my only XP desktop machine. |
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> Does anyone know of good comparative data on BogoMIPs in Linux vs. |
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> real compute speed for different processors? I'm looking for some way |
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> to compare different processors in the laptops I'm looking at vs. my |
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> current XP desktop which is my slowest machine. |
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> The application under Windows is doing neural network stuff. I |
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> have no idea how much of it is floating point based but my assumption |
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> is that is a pretty big part of the whole picture. Is the AMD FPU |
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> still superior to the Intel FPU or are they at parity these days? |
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> The current machine has 768MB. The application never uses more |
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> than 256MB and there is no significant disk I/O but the processor |
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> sits at 100% in XP for hours doing it's work optimizing the neural |
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> network. |
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You seem to know enough about these matters already to make a sane |
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judgement, so you probably already know that the real answer to your |
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question is "it depends". |
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Here's what I would do: pop along to your local store, preferably not |
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one of the big chains, find the sanest sales guy with a clue and |
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explain your problem. Don't listen to his recommendations, just ask if |
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you can test his demo machines with the actual app in question. If it's |
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an owner run store he probably say yes. Then test the thing for real |
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and measure progress after 30 minutes or so. Buy the best performer. |
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This will take a while, but at least you'll know for real which one |
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suits your needs best |
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alan |
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