On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:55 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone has one of these Core Duo Processors? How do they perform? > > Benchmarks I've seen on the web _does_ show that they perform better > > then a 2G Pentium-M. > > Excellent. The benchmarks are not lying, and when it comes to > something like compiling, it is basically twice as fast, except for > those rare ebuilds that set -j1...
Hm... I've seen one of those. Caused my dual-PII-350 server to crawl through the compile. Actually, can't believe that for some packages, compiling on that server actually came up on par, time wise, to my laptop 1.4Ghz P-Mobile. > -Richard (proud Dell e1705 owner) Hmm.. seems to me, you do like your laptops big and heavy and bulky. :-) IIRC, you had a P4 chip in your last laptop? (was that you?) The only Core-duo being offered locally in Malaysia is the inspiron 6400. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:41:20 up 16:19, 4 users, load average: 1.49, 1.37, 1.07 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
