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 1FOlxK-0000YQ-Mx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:28:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2U1Qks0016660; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:26:46 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([202.146.86.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2U1Daqi031211 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:13:37 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 k2U1CZ8c019600 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:12:35 +0800 Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone? From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <7573e9640603291634v2f22f489t4ca3448c3e683b09@mail.gmail.com> References: <1143616641.29453.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603282355t7ab5a526tfd619e0c9c45a03@mail.gmail.com> <1143646905.21205.31.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603290845h3bedb131m209cc6323aee5848@mail.gmail.com> <442B0C32.3090609@gmail.com> <7573e9640603291634v2f22f489t4ca3448c3e683b09@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:12:34 +0800 Message-Id: <1143681154.19064.17.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: b378adc5-f1b4-4d47-802f-67a20c1ab973 X-Archives-Hash: 772d1d0be06847417946a61b650b970b On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:34 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/29/06, michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote: > > How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? > > Summer. Got to have them out in time for back-to-school purchasing, right? > > > > > Elsewhere (perhaps on this list on a different topic) someone > > recommended not buying anything except for 64 bits (either AMD or Intel) > > from now on. Do you agree, in particular regarding laptops? > > No, but others are going to disagree with me! Actually, if I didn't have to get one now, I would wait. I'll not wait for the dual-core AMD, but I'll wait for the quad-core. After all, these dual-cores are just a transition time for the chip producers. Intel just announced that they'll be coming out with the quad cores sometime in Q1 2007 (can't remember which Q it was..) > > Nobody is currently producing laptops that can have over 4G of memory > (in fact, 2G is the max today in a laptop). I think I saw some with 3G? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:12:33 up 1 day, 1:50, 4 users, load average: 0.99, 0.80, 1.54 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list