On 6 July 2010 16:44, Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/07/10 16:25, Barry Drake wrote: >> ECS AM3 GeForce 6100PM-M2 > > Any reason you are specifically going for AMD? > > Just FYI, from what I've read over the past couple of years, currently > you will still get more bang-per-pound-spent going with intel processors > (ever since the "Core" architecture basically) and they use less power > than comparable AMD chips too.
Concur. AMD has totally dropped the ball when it comes to either price:performance or overall performance except at the very low end. (E.g., the Sempron chips are quite good, way better than Atom for desktop roles.) > Although it should also be said, opinion in the press is that AMD may > very well take back the mantle later this year/early next when AMD > release a new hybrid processor range integrated with high performance > ATi GPU (a SoC in reality), but this is a way off yet and early ones > will undoubtedly be quite pricey. They'll offer good graphics performance for low-end/low-cost systems, but they won't rival an Intel system with discrete graphics. Still, the heterogeneous multicore route is almost certainly the way things will go in future. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
