Vini Engel wrote:
I am researching on 64 bit performance and was wondering if any of you
run Linux on laptops fitted with AMD Turion 64 and what the results are?
I got an Acer Ferrari 4005 WMLi months ago, and I can honestly say it's
the *best* PC I've ever had ... in fact it absolutely *screams*.
It rips my P4 Prescott system to utter shreds, even though the Turion
CPU is rated at 2GHz and the P4 is rated at 3.6GHz????
Example: Video colour standards and framerate conversion from 29fps NTSC
MPEG2 with ac3 to 25fps PAL MPEG2 video, using *insane* settings (ultra
HQ, 2 pass, 10 bit precision, etc.) of a typical 1H 40m movie, takes the
P4 17 hours!!! but only takes the Turion *10 hours*.
That's an impressive difference.
Running FC5 on the Ferrari, and loving it.
Haven't really looked at power management stuff, since I always just
shut down when not using the laptop, but everything else works -
including h/w accelerated OGL graphics (ATI X700), audio, Wi-Fi
(madwifi), etc.
Only caveat with 64bit OSen is no current support (for either Windows 64
or Linux 64) from Macromedia (flashplayer) nor Sun (Java ns-plugin).
They will eventually - they'll have to, the way things are going.
--
K.
