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 1FOgnk-00033a-Ng for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:57:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2TJuU8w007178; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:56:30 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2TJleZr015592 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:47:41 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l1so257472nzf for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:47:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lrn32TI5NxkLux5UjJkNCEA3ID53PcNXcIm52kGzhpOOio/KV5qgsiF1ICjXaGo9uWkKTYJegzf8tFCm96O6pUHKeVQKNp8pXFHN70IH+klffw1iOdmvQtpgty35a2xo2879oyeQhnxBZ16CauQeTwHwxCjSvs67XIh4OoCzh20= Received: by 10.37.2.45 with SMTP id e45mr1435656nzi; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:47:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.154.3 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:47:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:47:39 -0800 From: "Lord Sauron" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone? In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1143616641.29453.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603282355t7ab5a526tfd619e0c9c45a03@mail.gmail.com> <1143646905.21205.31.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603290845h3bedb131m209cc6323aee5848@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2TJleZr015592 X-Archives-Salt: 343c9fdf-15a7-46a5-b3dc-88209589dc64 X-Archives-Hash: d241ddc38917baa7f872fe36357fd613 http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=4611686018425155337&storeId=10000001&langId=-1&categoryId=2059153&dualCurrId=1000073&catalogId=-840 That's the cheapest X60 with Core Duo. HOWEVER: I'd still highly recommend a AMD Turion. Well... I'd even more strongly suggest just waiting, all you prospective laptop buyers. A Dual Core Turion64 is coming *very* soon. The Turion64s murdered the Pentium M processors in not just speed but power efficiency. My Athlon1400 could kill a Pentium 4 2.4GHz any time. My Athlon64 can destroy the fastest non-dual core Pentium 4 (extreme editions exempted - I don't know anyone with one to compare the performance with). Acer makes good laptops with AMD chips. Just for laughs, Intel just released a new Pentium4 Ext.Ed. (Dual core, 955) to counter the FX-60 from AMD. PC World tested the chip... the FX-60 was ~30% faster while being about $30 cheaper. Okay, I'll stop evangelising AMD now. Thanks for listening (it makes me feel somewhat important). On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron wrote: > On 3/29/06, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > 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?) > > > > Yep, except that 'luggable' incurred severe lid cracking last summer > > and I had to replace it. So I purchased a 2.1Ghz P-M 6lb notebook to > > use for about 6 months until the first Core Duo came available. That > > was a nice notebook, even with a 15.4" screen, I found it to be very > > portable. > > You have no idea what portable is. One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch > X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to! > > > This is my first notebook with a 17" screen, which I really do > > like...except when I have to carry it! That's why I call it a > > 'luggable'. ;-> > > Just a word of the wise from many experienced laptop users: > > If you want to take it with you, less than 5 pounds is a requirement. > You may say you're strong, and I believe you. However, even the > world's strongest man would still have to admit that 13 pounds isn't a > good idea. > > Plus, think of it this way: > > There are exceptions to the road-warrior lighter-is-better rule, of > course, but not many. If you *need* the power, why not just > SSH/RDesktop into a bigger, much more expensive desktop and leave your > poor laptop battery alone? That's what I do. I have the tiny IBM > X40: not very fast. But then check out my desktop rig: AMD Athlon64 > 3000+ 2.0GHz Socket 754 1.0GHz FSB w/Hypertransport, 512Megs of RAM, > 10,000RPM WD SATA150 Raptor (76GB, I'm not rich enough for the new > 150GB) and a killer nVidia GeForce 6800 AGP 8x w/512MB of GDDR2 video > RAM (embedded OpenGL 1.5/DirectX9 processing). > > It's my baby - I raised it from just a little Athon K6 900MHz! I > built it myself out of a hulking abandoned server case. When I get > home, do I crunch numbers on the X40? No. I use it for what it's > good for: email, office work, y'know, editing stuff. Compile on the > big machine and you're home free. > > -- > ========== GCv3.12 ========== > GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ > L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ > V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ > DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y > ========= END GCv3.12 ======== > -- ========== GCv3.12 ========== GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y ========= END GCv3.12 ======== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list