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Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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> Actually, Pentium M processors may well be the best x86-compatible CPUs
> of their generation -- low power consumption relative to the competition,
> and the best performance per dollar in their class.  Pentium 4, though,
> certainly sucks.

as having pentium-M laptop and pentium-4 server i can only say - you are 
exactly right.

in real load my 1200Mhz laptop isn't much slower than 3Ghz pentium-4