From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 13:44:50 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 CA2EA16A41F for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:44:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from magawake@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A9D43D49 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:44:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from magawake@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 55so824957wri for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:44:49 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FrKJA0lVcgsf6bOKqaXY9HpSrIkt/nm52omOaRaXu6Ib+D3aY4huowbKny2GgiCMNxN0zUvxA18P9jaawUHvNA5m9s0N5+oQvicTPQEz8E550f2e0grgVAgcgHBpY3sF2a1HVTkGGIyPmGGpF1Uc+6CX5GwjQaWPrcI14gIbhYw= Received: by 10.54.34.61 with SMTP id h61mr1853751wrh; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.147.18 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1cbd6f8305072406446c872066@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:44:49 -0400 From: Mag Gam To: Rainer Duffner In-Reply-To: <42D4C575.3070502@ultra-secure.de> 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> <2fd864e050713000248100be4@mail.gmail.com> <42D4C575.3070502@ultra-secure.de> Cc: Astrodog , 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 Reply-To: Mag Gam List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:44:50 -0000 Thanks for the replies! It seems I would like to goto the AMD route because of the 64bit compatabality (yea..I am a victim of Marketing). What is the major difference between AMD64, Turion, and Sempron? On 7/13/05, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Astrodog wrote: >=20 > >>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. > > > > >=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_12651_12= 658,00.html >=20 >=20 >=20 > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >