Re: AMD vs. Intel

4200s are still being sold.  I presume it's the cheapest way to stuff a
big HD in a notebook while keeping costs down.  The specs sound great as
few people are aware of the impact of spindle speed.

If you know anyone at OfficeMax, they're having a Friends and Family
discount sale today & tomorrow.  One of the featured items in the flyer
is a Compaq notebook.  AMD Turion 64 CPU, 1GB RAM, 80GB drive, 15.4"
LCD, XP Home, Wireless, etc. for like $700.  Nice deal, really, until
you dig a little.  I went to Compaq's site and saw the drive was, you
guessed it, 4200 RPMs.  Totally spoils the potential performance of the
machine.


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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:04 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] AMD vs. Intel

Ditto what Paul and John said.

I was pleasantly surprised to see our kid's school (K-8) just picked up
a new laptop, used mostly for media type work, that was 64-bit AMD and
"ready for Windows Vista".  Don't recall the exact AMD processor model,
but with 2GB of ram, this is one fast little box.  Have no idea what
they paid for it either but, needless to say, this isn't your
TigerDirect special of the week.

Frankly, I'm on the fence a bit about Vista as I've heard through
various newsgroups that Vista will be far from "ready for prime time"
when it hits the corporate street later this year.  (Isn't it funny that
the corporations get the first crack at Vista?  Consumers have to wait
until next year.  I can just see all the IT managers lining up to
install Vista shortly after
release.)  I want to think that the PC vendors were jumping all over
Microsoft not to release Vista in time for Christmas to avert a support
crisis.  FWIW, this is just hearsay on hearsay.

John: 4200RPM?  I never knew these existed.  Is this pre-Pentium, maybe
even
pre-486 technology?  Or was it a tradeoff for energy savings on the
laptop?

- Dan
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