You can't compare clock speeds across different types or revisions/generations of CPUs. Today's CPUs are much more efficient clock-for-clock than their predecessors.
See here for an explanation: http://yama.blogsome.com/2007/11/12/megahertz-marketing/ On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Chris Dinneen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes It was a Pentium 4. But the Clock speed on the EeePC is only ~900MHz. > > martin fricke wrote: > > Do you mean a Pentium 4 2.4GHz? They were released to the market at > > least 5 years ago (up to 6 years) so are old technology. Still seems > > like good performance from a mini notebook though. > > > > > > ----------- > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:30:10 +1000, Chris Dinneen > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I work in a Physics Department at a University and I helped one of the > >> Grad students modify his Eee PC so we could install mathematica (the > >> default partition scheme is less than helpful). As a comparison of > >> speed, our 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium Desktop took 3 times longer to > >> calculate a series of 5 complicated integrals as the EeePC. So the thing > >> certainly doesn't lack speed. -- Your toaster doesn't crash. Your television doesn't crash. Why should your computer? http://www.linux.org.au/linux
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