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Samsung trumpets mass production of Spinpoint MP2 / M6 / F1 HDDs {Engadget}
Jun 18th 2008 7:35PM you have obviously not been on a university's fileshare hub
Preliminary benchmarks have VIA's Isaiah besting Intel's Atom {Engadget}
Apr 18th 2008 3:00PM If this were the age of P4 Prescott and Pentium D a couple years back, I would be right with you. but suddenly you don't see intel chips hitting 3.8ghz with the 67x and nor do you see the current trend with graphics cards, which is just the constant increase in power consumption.
After Intel ditched Pentium and started basing everything off the Core architectures, they really have started looking at power consumption, even for desktop machines. AMD recently released a line of power saving chips that competed directly with Intel's standard line.
Like AMD and the Athlon 64+ series, Intel went back and started making sure each clock cycle could do as much as possible, ending their GHz racing streak, in my opinion for the better. Yes, the clock speeds are rising once again (the inital Core desktop CPUs topped out under 3ghz) but that is not to say that Intel is just going for brute force, especially considering that their current desktop processor has a processing step pipeline closer in length to an A64 or mobile Dothan core than the Prescott/Cedar Mill Pentiums.
Even since Intel started focusing on mobile CPUs as an individual asset (and that does NOT include "Mobile Pentium 4") power consumption has been a very important focus on their mobile chips, which has indeed carried over to their desktop products, which you now see in the form of 45nm die sizes, speedstepping, etc.
Now, an intel sticker on my machine doesn't go as far as to make me "feel secure", but there's nothing about hardware that's buggy either... i didn't think there were CPU drivers. But at this point i think Intel does have the best all around product set around. Props to them for venturing into the ultra mobile, ultra low voltage/power consumption field. Even if at first they don't succeed (seems their success in mobile, desktop, and server products has got their reputation hyped quite high) they'll hopefully improve and push the field as they do.
*sighs* back to linear algebra
Skullphone decides to speak, probably shouldn't have {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 3:00PM (this is a reply to my own comment, which was supposed to be a reply to my last reply, which was in fact supposed to be its own comment, in case it doesn't go where I want it to)
lol
dern engadget comments system...
Skullphone decides to speak, probably shouldn't have {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 2:55PM ...?
i meant that as a normal comment to the article...
not as a reply....
Skullphone decides to speak, probably shouldn't have {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 2:54PM wtf is he talking about?
Sony PFR-V1 WTFones ears-off {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 5:18PM hehe
it looks funny
Palm Centro now official on AT&T {Engadget}
Feb 19th 2008 12:40AM honestly, I like the green
Intel branding Montevina platform Centrino 2? {Engadget}
Feb 18th 2008 2:27AM oops between 9 and 10 should be supported FSB
Intel branding Montevina platform Centrino 2? {Engadget}
Feb 18th 2008 2:25AM 1) designation
2) generation of centrino
3) date released
4) marketed name
5) core name
6) die size
7) physical processing cores
8) L2 cache
9) 64bit
10) chipset
11) RAM support
12) integrated graphics
13) integrated audio
14) Wireless hardware
15) wireless support
Video: Intel's WiMax Segway takes geek, extreme {Engadget}
Feb 13th 2008 3:40AM of course not!! those laptops must have GPS/google maps buit in somewhere!
who ever needs to tear their eyes from the screen ever again?
