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According to the article S754 is going to actually outlast S939.
AMD's Socket 754 to Outlast Socket 939

As usual, the specs are misleading (but everybody should expect that anyway - it's nothing new, certainly not for hard drive manufacturers).

From the Spec Sheet:
"One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity."

That said, I'm a Seagate fan when it comes to hard drives. Lovely and quiet, and I've never had one fail yet (touch wood).

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This is very relevant to me because my 4 year old laptop died Sunday. I now have a choice between Core Duo or Turion... what I really want is a 64 bit dual core laptop.

None of Merom/Conroe or AM2 can be purchased by users today, and Merom is late 2006 at the earliest...

My best hope is gutting it out until May 9 when AMD introduces the Turion X2 on AM2 or S1. For a dual core 64 bit laptop from Intel the wait would be too long.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/02/09/intel_ mobile_roadmap_feb_06/

AMD's Turion 64 Roadmap

Before you completely eliminate Merom, note that Merom is pin-compatible with Yonah and will work with Intel's current 945PM/GM chipsets. Therefore, a Merom-upgradable notebook is available today, dual-core Turion 64 chipset and CPU is probably coming in June, and the Merom CPU is coming in October at the very earliest.

If you are considering the upgrade-to-Merom option, a cheap interim solution will soon be available. Celeron M processors based on the Core Solo core are now selling in Japan:

'Yonah' Celeron M 420, 430 ship in Japan

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1584

1. The CAFE standards are very low considering what we could accomplish with current technology, for example a 157 mpg NON HYBRID that is going to be released in Germany for 13,000 dollars (U.S.)

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1000

2. The reason they "sell a lot of them," is they advertised the hell out of them and in "clever" ways to make pencil necked pointy haired bosses feel insecure about their masculinity if they didn't commute to work on perfectly flat pavement in a 4000 pound 4 wd truck that can do 120 mph when the speed limit is 70 tops. Yes tee vee advertising propaganda and group think do work for a while until it costs too much to be "cool." Then suddenly last years "cool" becomes "un cool" finally, thankfully a Prius is "cool." As we inch closer to peak oil and 3/gallon gas those German diesels will win and the big 3 will lose and that has nothing to do with unions and everything to do with short sighted marketing and design decisions.

No I don't think so; :)

According to this, the 2.66 GHz Conroe will be released in Q3'06 at a price of US$530, in 1000-unit quantities.

With these prices, combined with the apparent performance and power differences (Conroe has a predicted TDP of 65W, compared to the FX60 at 110W), it looks to me like we'll finally see some heavy competition from Intel. Of course, a lot can happen between now and then - Intel have had manufacturing issues in the past, AMD have a new memory controller on the way and a 65nm die shrink due early next year, and can probably squeeze out two or even three speed bumps before Conroe really hits. Who knows, they might even drop their prices a bit.

Come Q3, I'll be sitting in the ringside seats with popcorn, ready to watch the fun :-)

I want:

1. Component output. S-Video will do if there's no "tearing" during horizontal pans.
2. XBMC work-alike. I don't care about the scripting, MameoX, or XBOX games. I want to access any file MPlayerOSX/VLAN can handle over my home network.

...I want this to replace my aging XBMC center. MythTV is another option in a ShuttlePC case - but the form factor of the Mac Mini is unbeatable.

If you want Core Duo/Solo support, Aopen announced an updated version last week.

Daily Tech posted a preview of the AOpen MiniPC just today - it's their answer to the Mac Mini, and worth a quick look. Not sure I like the blue color, but like one of the comments says, there's always spray paint.

That's nice, good for AMD. But where are the FB-DIMMs?

Bah, the screenshots clearly show that DailyTech is using Linux, they must be crazy.

On a serious note, however, how will this effect Xbox 360's, or would these custom ATI processors support it?

Better interview with Henri Richard from AMD here instead:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=295

The TGP interview is OK, but that guy is just a mouthpiece.

HJ