Any major differences between Pentium/AMD nowadays?

[derek]

aimed at durk (im too lazy for the whole html quoting thing, sorry):


<<Don't worry, I'm not as bad as I may look..>>


NP :-)


<<Well I rechecked the AnandTech review, it's not rivaling the fastest desktop CPUs, but only the faster desktop CPUs. At least in the area AnandTech tested. Take a look here.>>


well ok, let me put it this way: from my personal "benchmarks" (wich were purely audio related, as in, how many plugins of this type, how many plugins of that type, and at what latency), i would put it somewhere in the same league as a 3,2 GHZ P4, at least its faster than my 3,0 P4 (the only P4 i have).

it sure is a little slower than the latest and greatest. but thats the laptop version from today. it will be interesting to see how a touched up desktop version would compare.


<<Yes it's easy. But they won't do this for laptops, because it takes a lot more power.>>


probably not. but i meant the theoretical desktop version anyway.


<<Concluding, I think it's a very interesting move of Intel; bringing the Pentium M to the desktop. I'm very curious how this will happen!>>


note that its still a rumour (last i checked at least). but fwiw, its a rumour ive read about a lot more than once now. im curious too. cause, of course im not saying i will be right, its just what i would expect. since my prophecy-skills are only so-so, theres a good chance im completely wrong too :-)


<<Well I'm able to read German, but it will take some time, so the article should better be good!
Can you give me some names of those magazines?>>


its called "keyboards". not to confuse with "keys".
im not sure if it really makes sense to order older issues just for those benchmarks, unless youre interested in older computers ;-) as far as the dual G5 goes, maybe someone who reads this thread still has the issue in question handy and can just post the naked test results (there are quite a few germans hanging out here, at least thats my impression :-)

[Durk]

well ok, let me put it this way: from my personal "benchmarks" (wich were purely audio related, as in, how many plugins of this type, how many plugins of that type, and at what latency), i would put it somewhere in the same league as a 3,2 GHZ P4, at least its faster than my 3,0 P4 (the only P4 i have).

I wished AnandTech did some more audio tests...

note that its still a rumour (last i checked at least). but fwiw, its a rumour ive read about a lot more than once now. im curious too. cause, of course im not saying i will be right, its just what i would expect. since my prophecy-skills are only so-so, theres a good chance im completely wrong too

Sure it's still a rumor. Intel would never confirm that too soon. But there's no other option for Intel left than starting make a desktop processor out of the Pentium M. They stopped developing the Pentium 4 Tejas...

its called "keyboards". not to confuse with "keys".
im not sure if it really makes sense to order older issues just for those benchmarks, unless youre interested in older computers as far as the dual G5 goes, maybe someone who reads this thread still has the issue in question handy and can just post the naked test results (there are quite a few germans hanging out here, at least thats my impression

Germans, where are you???