Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:44:49 -0400 From: Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Cc: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>, rseals@vdsi.net, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD or Intel Message-ID: <1cbd6f8305072406446c872066@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42D4C575.3070502@ultra-secure.de> References: <1cbd6f830507090623223e6261@mail.gmail.com> <1121202949.819.1.camel@localhost> <2fd864e050713000248100be4@mail.gmail.com> <42D4C575.3070502@ultra-secure.de>
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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 <rainer@ultra-secure.de> 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 <g>). > 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" >
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