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First Intel Yonah Laptop Announced
Lam1969 writes "IDG News Service reports NEC will release its first laptop based on Intel's Yonah dual-core processor in the first quarter of 2006, for just under $2,000. According to AnandTech, Yonah performance is comparable to AMD Athlon 64 X2, and is more efficient than the AMD chip in terms of power consumption."
If today's slashdot articles was an indication of things to come, then you might as well name this site dailyslashkos.com. Nothing but "Your Rights Online" and political wankfests, which might be good for getting pagehits, but is certainly not slashdot's forte. If you don't subscribe to the slashdot orthodoxy that Bush/US/Government = evil, then there's not much reason to be here.
Stuff like this Intel article is what slashdot should stick with. Tech news here is becoming rarer and rarer to see, I guess editors realize there's not much flamewars and pagehits that come with it.
Please editors, get out the politics and bring back the tech. Remember the good old days when Taco said slashdot wasn't political? What happened to that?
Only the old people are whores.
The name Yonah reminds me of "Yoni" which means something else entirely
Not safe for work link describing said "Yoni"
No, not at all. That made no sense. I wouldn't be too surprised if you bought a Nintendo 64 just for the publicity.
When we talk about the difference between 32 and 64 bits, we are generally referring to the size of the largest unit of data the processor treats at each moment (ie. the word size). 64 bit processors, IMHO, currently have only one real advantage over 32 bit ones, which is the exponentially larger addressing space, but this isn't really urgent seeing as the RAM limit for 32 bit architectures is 8 GB and we still have a couple of years ahead before desktops starting having this much memory.
Manufacturers try to make customers overlook the fallacy that just because you have a bigger number, the performance will rise accordingly. It's the same with clock frequency. Many other factors are on trial, such as the strategies employed for pipelining or branch prediction and if these aren't engineered properly, there's no real benefit in being able to process more data. Furthermore, as the grandparent said, 64 bit datapaths basically imply more electronics, and longer paths take longer to cross; thus, a compromise must be taken between all those factors.
apprently in a disputed area. So I won't buy one, like I avoid fruit & veg from Israel. The Palestinians struggle to have enough water, and the Israelis steal it for growing food for export. AMD are better anyway, Intel just keep the market with bribes & shady deals.