[gentoo-user] [OT]Real compute cycles in a laptop?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Hi,
   I'm in the market for a new laptop. I sold mine about a year ago
and it's time to get a new one. I will run both Linux and Win XP on
the machine. The Linux workload will not be anything substantial but
when in Win XP I have a program that I'll be running that is very
compute bound on my only XP desktop machine.

   Does anyone know of good comparative data on BogoMIPs in Linux vs.
real compute speed for different processors? I'm looking for some way
to compare different processors in the laptops I'm looking at vs. my
current XP desktop which is my slowest machine.

   The application under Windows is doing neural network stuff. I have
no idea how much of it is floating point based but my assumption is
that is a pretty big part of the whole picture. Is the AMD FPU still
superior to the Intel FPU or are they at parity these days?

   The current machine has 768MB. The application never uses more than
256MB and there is no significant disk I/O but the processor sits at
100% in XP for hours doing it's work optimizing the neural network.

   Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Cheers,
Mark
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