I completely disagree, Centrino? Better engineered? If you ever load a Centrino you will quickly realize the Intel just successfully got you to pay top dollar for a slow processor. There is nothing "better engineered" in a Centrnio. It runs only marginally faster than it's donor platform (p3) at equal speeds. It is a lower power chip because it essentially a p3 core scaled down on smaller traces so they could lower the v-core. They threw some extra cache on the die to make it run smoother, and *poof* old product = top dollar for minimum R&D costs. Centrino is a Intel profit center for people that buy what the nice salesmen says is better. Bottom line: Moore's Law states that every 18 months CPU speeds will double. This will not change. What will change is 64bit will replace 32bit, and we will see more lateral scaling, either in broader SMP use, or multi-thread single CPU's, (similar to Hyper-Threading). -----Original Message----- From: duncan brown [mailto:duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:32 PM To: M. Fioretti; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Too many dependencies? was: Is Linux always so frustating? slashdot linked to that article about when it came out. some of the stats seem really skewed, like the 1.8 tons of water for a monitor. i'm sure that almost all of it is recycled water from a previous monitor, otherwise monitors wouldn't be so freaking cheap. and if you leave your computer on 24x7, then yes, it probably does use up about as much juice as a fridge... if it's an AMD XP or a cutting edge intel... but the tides are changing, mhz isn't going to be paramount anymore, it's going to be efficiency. look at intel and the low mhz centrino based laptops. people are starting to realize that they don't really notice much of a difference between a better engineered 1.3ghz machine and a 3.4ghz "get it out to the market as quickly as possible" machine when they're on the web, emailing or anything. i personally see the future as slower processors with large (1mb+ cache) that are energy efficient as the future. completely off topic, sorry. he started it =] -d ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Fioretti" <m.fioretti@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:30:29 +0200 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Too many dependencies? was: Is Linux always so frustating? > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62562,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_ 6 Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. +( duncan brown +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
