[ale] OT Laptop pref

[Stephen Turner]

yea well i decided to hold out as long as i can till i really need one.
then see whats out. im not really satisfied with any of the laptops. i
really had my heart out for the mac the way they boasted it (being 3 times
faster than p4 equivs) but then i realize that the mac compared to new
cpus really aint much faster if any. the mac laptops look sweet and sounds
sweet but according to 3rd party tests performs just like amd vs intel,
better in some respects worse in others. however ive now gotten curious
about this pentium M, they say it whips the g4 in single cpu tests. altho
the mhz is higher :-p by the sounds of it a nice 2ghz M processor would
really be nice but then the price is way up there with mac and the laptops
include that cintrino package that doesnt work with linux GRRRRR YOU HEAR
ME INTEL? and even then they dont have a lotta goodies, but ive seen a few
:D running 3k+ but anyways. Is the pentium M all they claim? faster than
g4 (1.6ghz pentium vs 1.25 g4) and more power conservative? has anyone
been playing with that and linux?

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