On Monday 24 April 2006 13:44, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > 64 bits with more registers than the core duo, afaik. It might not be > good for you, but for those of us who are a little bit more > interested in CPU performance than graphics, 64bitness is good.
umm...you'll be surprised to know that the graphics performance of Core Duo is not good as compared to the pentium-M lest the software is optimized for SSE3 instructions. Ofcourse everyone has their own needs AMD 64bit CPUs have more registers, more bandwidth, basically more of everything. But 64 bit doesn't necessarily mean that it supercedes the 32bit performance infact the Core Duo squarely beats all _desktop_ AMD64 X2 processors except AMD64 4800+ X2. It comes very close and actually beats it in some tests but not all. More over it draws lesser power and runs cooler. For a mobile processor, it's pretty amazing I must say. I dont mean to hurt anybodys feelings here but I am very firmly in the Intel camp and I am happy that finally they have put out a product which does justice to the engineers over at intel. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
