[ale] OT Laptop pref

[Greg]

Yeah, I had a *lot* to learn about 64 bit machines a short time ago also
;0-( )

I did see some stuff about 6 mos ago that showed single processor high end
cpu's beating a dual G4 mac.  Pretty amazing if true.  I think that when it
comes down to cycles per second on apps that use serial processing (as
opposed to apps that can parallel process something) slower times eat the
dust.  I would also look at the total system of a laptop - what the cpu
does, how much it moves in and out (front side bus), and how the mobo fits
into the picture.  A lot of onboard cache can make a big difference.  I
think Toms hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com) had some good stuff on
comparisons.

I chose my laptop on $$$ and reliability and got a used IBM thinkpad with
300 MHz, 193 MB of ram and a 6 GB HD (later upgraded to a 30GB so the SO can
do Windows 98 on the 6GB HD). It runs Windows 2k Pro and Suse 8.2 just fine,
though I don't do much that pushes it I confess. Using a *nix and a minimal
windowing (or none) program will stretch out the lifetime of a machine.

Good luck and tell us how things come out.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Stephen Turner
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:14 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] OT Laptop pref
>
>
> hey thanks for the education on 64 bit vs 32, i really had my facts
> missunderstood :-p. anyways whats the preference on laptops? and the high
> acheivers? i hear the 1.6 pentium M (centrino package) outperforms a mac
> g4 1.25. anyone know if this is fact?
>
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