Re: AMD or Intel
Rainer Duffner <[email protected]>
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Astrodog wrote: >>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. > > 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. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_12651_12658,00.html Rainer _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"