Paul Andreassen wrote:
Hi all and sundry,
I'm thinking of using a Pentium M processor but would like some user
experiences with this processor.
Is it worth the money?
Advantages?
Linux kernel support?
Thanks,
Paul
Worth the money? That's down to personal opinion. It's VERY fast, for
negligable power/heat, but is DOES cost a lot. AMD64 is better
bang-per-buck, but Pentium-M wins hands down if you want bangs-per-Watt,
and the associated cooling-noise benefits.
My Pentium-M system's fans stay off most of the time, as they're
considered unneccessary by the motherboard. That's really the biggest
benefit. You _CAN_, if you really want to, run the system without any
heatsink at all, and certainly a large heatsink with no fan is no problem.
Kernel support is, well, MOSTLY fine. There's a big gap in terms of CPU
frequency scaling on modern (Dothan) chips, which is fixed by a patch
found in Ubuntu - use THIS patch:
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=601. _VERY_ recent
kernels have broken support for Dothan, so you may need to patch against
an old speedstep-centrino.c, or manually clean up the broken crap in
upstream's file.
--Jo Shields
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