Hi, > > Anyway, I think that both amd64 compatible CPUs are > > good now, but Intel > > Core 2 Duo is a bit colder. I'm not sure about AMD > > status, but with dual > > core Intel there is still no speedstep support. But > > my C2D is even > > without it colder then Ferrari with powernow module. > > One should make his/her decision carefully here, most of the time > your CPU runs idle anyway, and since there is no support for > power management on dualcore-CPUs at this time, chances are that > the second core just depletes your battery while being idle all the time. >
Switch off the second core and you can use power management from frkit now. And still you will have the latest x86 CPU designs with lower power consumption (in case of Intel you have even no other possibility if you want to have 64bit CPU in notebook, because there are no EM64T CPUs except C2D for notebooks). And from my experience, power consumption of Intel notebook platform is much better then AMD notebook platform. As opposite to desktop lines. > On the other hand, if you don't really rely on your battery life, I would go > for the dualcore, strictly subjective I would say Solaris seems to react > faster > with dualcore CPU, it just feels running more smoothly. > kmdb with own CPU core is more useful in some situations :-) > > Wifi is a bit problem, atheros is the most supported, > > forget about > > broadcom wifi. Intel 3945 still not, older yes. > > This seems to be a problem at the moment? As far as I understand, > some Intel mobile chips come with Wifi 3945abg on the CPU-board > direclty, so if you buy Intel you'll probably get one of these 3945s with > the newer CPUs. Can anybody clear this up? > 3945 is part of Centrino brand. But not all companies are delivering Centrino, some are removing wifi part from it and using different (as I wrote e.g. US Lenovo in Thinkpads, there you can select Intel or Atheros based wifi). > On the other hand, if they come directly with some CPUs, they'll be very > common these days and I think they'll be supported sooner or later. > I hope so :-) Best regards, Milan
