[Lula] OT - which is better for a desktop replacement

[Christopher Smith]

Steve wrote:

>On Wednesday 14 June 2006 9:18 pm, tbs wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Guys,
>>
>>I'm about to get a new laptop, and have a good budget. The machine will
>>be running Debian, and will be a full production desktop replacement.
>>
>>To that end, I was wondering ... : (here it comes ...)
>>
>>AMD64, or
>>Pentium M or,
>>Intel Duo Core....
>>
>>for CPU
>>
>>I wonder if anyone can give me the lowdown on which is better for what
>>type of work and why ?
>>    
>>
So, AMD64 is a no-brainer if you want a 64-bit runtime on your laptop.
Duo Core seems like a no brainer over Pentium M (aside from some
software/firmware bugs that were there in the beginning). The tricky one
is Turion vs. Core Duo for a 32-bit runtime. Duo will in theory not be
so hot for single threaded cases. Last I checked, they were close enough
that you probably should focus more on other factors.

>I just bought a mac powerbook 15.4" for el grandisimo_presidente_for_life of 
>my company.  It's really a nice machine, and it *is* unix, after all.
>  
>
It'll probably burn his knees off shortly. ;-) Our experience has not
been positive.

--Chris
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