On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:08:18PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >Actually, Pentium M processors may well be the best x86-compatible CPUs > >of their generation -- low power consumption relative to the competition, > >and the best performance per dollar in their class. Pentium 4, though, > >certainly sucks. > > as having pentium-M laptop and pentium-4 server i can only say - you are > exactly right. > > in real load my 1200Mhz laptop isn't much slower than 3Ghz pentium-4
. . . and my 1.73GHz Pentium M is faster than a 3GHz P4. I was pretty happy when I heard rumors Pentium was going to start offering tower system motherboards that accept Pentium M processors in 2003, but alas, they were just rumors. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Mediocrity corrupts. Bureaucracy corrupts absolutely.
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