From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 13 07:40:40 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 20DA716A41C for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:40:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D7643D55 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:40:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 59554 invoked by uid 1005); 13 Jul 2005 07:40:38 -0000 Received: from rainer@ultra-secure.de by bsd.ultra-secure.de by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamdscan: 0.85. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(213.196.191.65):. Processed in 0.029785 secs); 13 Jul 2005 07:40:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@213.196.191.65) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Jul 2005 07:40:38 -0000 Message-ID: <42D4C575.3070502@ultra-secure.de> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:40:37 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Astrodog References: <1cbd6f830507090623223e6261@mail.gmail.com> <1121202949.819.1.camel@localhost> <2fd864e050713000248100be4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2fd864e050713000248100be4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rseals@vdsi.net, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD or Intel X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:40:40 -0000 Astrodog wrote: >>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. >> >>Ray >> >> >> > >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 think that's not exactly true. (Well, the conclusion may not be wrong, but the reasoning is ). Turion64-CPUs consume about as much (or little) energy as Pentium-M chips. But due to better overall design, the total power-consumption of "Centrino"-laptops is some Watts less than that of Turion64-powered ones. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_12651_12658,00.html Rainer