More Analysis Of Pentium M Desktops

Hack Jandy writes "The Pentium 4 has gotten enough attention lately as a slow, over heated monstrosity; but does Intel's Pentium M fare any better? Intel's decision to introduce the Pentium M as a desktop processor (East Fork) may not be all it's cracked up to be. Sudhian has an in-depth article, and Anand has benchmarks (on Linux!). I will stick with my Athlon 64, thank you very much."

Comments

Big Surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

I will stick with my Athlon 64, thank you very much.

Translation: I am 14 years old and I have no need for any sort of stability in my "rig". I don't have to worry about getting any sort of real work done, so I play games all day and look at porn. If I can overclock a 3% performance increase, I'll cream my virgin shorts.

Re:Big Surprise

[bzebarth]

That's so not true. I know a lot of 30 year old Athlon lovers who play games and look at porn all day.

Re:Big Surprise

[hendridm]

For what reason are Athlon 64 processors not "stable"?

You get what you pay for?

Re:Big Surprise

[lsmeg]

For what reason are Athlon 64 processors not "stable"?

You get what you pay for?

I hope you don't use linux then... :P

Re:Big Surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

Also I don't wear shorts, I wear pants like a real coder.

So you're not a REAL coder: I know a guy who has the shorts, the hawaiian shirt AND the beard! He's powered by coffee and cigarettes.

Re:Big Surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

Pentium users mostly fish for young victims in AOL chat rooms.

It's a little known fact, but convicted child molestors almost execlusively use Windows. Does this mean the pedophiles that run Linux don't get caught as easily?

The answer

[Anonymous Coward]

I will stick with my Athlon 64, thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Failed Pentium

[superpulpsicle]

So is Pentium M just a bunch of failed Pentium processors that didn't fare well in the assembly line? Sort of like Celeron... cough cough.

Re:Failed Pentium

[Thnikkaman]

Many Dothans died to bring us this information

Surely PowerPC G5 is the way forward?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would anyone want to use an Intel chip or an AMD chip is beyond me. All that backwards-compatible legacy circuitry eating up real-estate on the die.

With the advent of 64-bit OS-X, the Mac G5 platform is the only serious contender for my desktop. And I would have thought that the tech-savvy readership of this website would feel the same.

Re:Best place for AMD systems

[mollymoo]

I've gotten old enough that I no longer thrill at the idea of building my own system. I'm looking for something quiet, very reliable,

So buy a Mac.

and inexpensive.

Oh, OK, don't buy a Mac then :)

Re:Pentium M clocks down too much

[Bloater]

> My experience with Pentium M is that it clocks down BIG time if you don't plug in the power cord. So much so that the laptop is virtually useless.

Funny, my desktop does the same...

Re:Every geek...

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

Every real geek has owned a dual proc. Intel machine.

No...every REAL geek can remember saving up for their first math co-processor.

Re:Every geek...

[FFFish]

Every real geek can remember the first time they took a soldering iron to the motherboard to piggyback 4k RAM chips in a hack to double the memory of their machine.

Re:Intel is trying to shift the battle, not catch

[statusbar]

My parents and the bulk of the people out there do not need a 64bit 5ghz monster under their desk. And honestly most of thosethat have them probably only use the power 5-10% of the time, if that.

You know, 10 years ago I was saying the same thing about the bulk of the people not needing a 32bit 1 gHz monster under their desk. Now this is the minimum that they need.

Don't underestimate Microsoft's ability to make software that brings yesterday's supercomputers to their knees today.

--jeff++

Re:Pentium M clocks down too much

[kurzweilfreak]

Funny, so does my blender, my TV, my refrigerator...

Re:Best place for AMD systems

[geekoid]

"I have a faster computer, a larger penis and better hair than you."

Mom?