From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 13 07:02:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704AA16A41C for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:02:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030B843D49 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:02:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i30so94260wra for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:02:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uptwhfXK2d14tPwoA2C3ef2bChD9nTcG9UoYYAIwtNL5djSO3qucjI4EiIP7bL2VOJbezUQwAogqY2/ye9yTJvnhk2qP5XoefJGpagLcaZzVewbEa7uYJnGQ1Zn5fkfAOL/fTwY1mLhsnq96oolibhc4M1wUKAvkkdFgg5+l8Ko= Received: by 10.54.51.8 with SMTP id y8mr204250wry; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.110.12 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2fd864e050713000248100be4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:02:57 -0700 From: Astrodog To: rseals@vdsi.net, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1121202949.819.1.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1cbd6f830507090623223e6261@mail.gmail.com> <1121202949.819.1.camel@localhost> Cc: Subject: Re: AMD or Intel X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Astrodog List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:02:59 -0000 > I purchased an e-machines AMD laptop in April and had nothing but > problems with cooling. The machine constantly over heated. So, if you > go the AMD route. Make sure you do some research and specifically > cooling issues. >=20 > Ray >=20 As a quick note, AMD Mobiles (Athlon64 Mobile, etc), tend to consume less power than comparable Intels (Non-Mobile P4s, Mobile EEs, etc). The overheating issue is most likely an e-machines issue, than an AMD one, per se. That being said, one thing to note on the AMD line, is that there really isn't a true low power mobile processor, either. Its basically Athlon64, Turion(sp), or Semperon, none of which would compare to say Pentium M, on power usage as far as I'm aware. I've had great luck with my AMD64 laptop, myself. (Athlon64 3000)