Hi, Guest
10-21-2005, 11:21 PM
Yeah P3/P6 technology is the way forward, as it always should have been. NetBurst was a bad idea that turned into the weirdest 4 years EVER for Intel.
Although, the thing to remember when comparing P-M and Turion laptops is that the claimed TDP for each processor is 100% load for AMD, and 75% load for the Intel.
So... AMD claims 35W dissipated. That's at 100% CPU load.
Intel claims 25W dissipated, that's at 75% CPU load.
What I really don't like about the new P-M offerings from Dell is that they use dual-channel DDR2 memory. Total bandwidth on my new laptop (2x512MB, DDR2-400, P-M 1.73GHz) - <3GB/sec. Not much better than the single-channel DDR333 I had on the old one.
Although, the thing to remember when comparing P-M and Turion laptops is that the claimed TDP for each processor is 100% load for AMD, and 75% load for the Intel.
So... AMD claims 35W dissipated. That's at 100% CPU load.
Intel claims 25W dissipated, that's at 75% CPU load.
What I really don't like about the new P-M offerings from Dell is that they use dual-channel DDR2 memory. Total bandwidth on my new laptop (2x512MB, DDR2-400, P-M 1.73GHz) - <3GB/sec. Not much better than the single-channel DDR333 I had on the old one.
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