From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FOctf-0006Jn-CW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:47:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2TFkwHx020405; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:46:58 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([60.50.192.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2TFgnIZ007235 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:42:51 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2TFfkAq026096 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:41:46 +0800 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone? From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <7573e9640603282355t7ab5a526tfd619e0c9c45a03@mail.gmail.com> References: <1143616641.29453.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603282355t7ab5a526tfd619e0c9c45a03@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:41:45 +0800 Message-Id: <1143646905.21205.31.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8547ee5a-69d6-4ede-abb7-68da6532be6e X-Archives-Hash: b5bacde9824f91a4f99879b02515c858 On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:55 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Anyone has one of these Core Duo Processors? How do they perform? > > Benchmarks I've seen on the web _does_ show that they perform better > > then a 2G Pentium-M. > > Excellent. The benchmarks are not lying, and when it comes to > something like compiling, it is basically twice as fast, except for > those rare ebuilds that set -j1... Hm... I've seen one of those. Caused my dual-PII-350 server to crawl through the compile. Actually, can't believe that for some packages, compiling on that server actually came up on par, time wise, to my laptop 1.4Ghz P-Mobile. > -Richard (proud Dell e1705 owner) 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?) The only Core-duo being offered locally in Malaysia is the inspiron 6400. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:41:20 up 16:19, 4 users, load average: 1.49, 1.37, 1.07 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list