[ltp] Buying a T41p

[Morris, Joseph C]

"Well this sounds great!  My housemate has a plain P4 2.4GHz Toshiba and
it seems a bit sluggish.  If these Pentium Ms are much better and lower
power, why don't they use them in desktop machines?"

That's what I've been wondering, I think I even heard that they work =
with any old PIII chipset.  However, Intel wants to market its insane P4 =
design as being the ultimate in desktop, since they have been pumping so =
much money into it.  P4 eventually became okay, but Prescott is truly an =
awful design, but that is a flame not appropriate for this list :)  I've =
not been fond of Intel recently, but I think that the Pentium M was a =
step in the right direction.  It actually seems as though they are =
trying to make their desktop chips good for processing multiple data =
streams simultaneously, as evidenced by the addition of SSE/SSE2/SSE3, =
hyperthreading, high clock rates, long pipelines, etc.  I think that a =
better direction would be something low-power and efficient.  Heck, the =
Prescotts require heavy cooling and have more strict case requirements =
because of heat.

Joe

PS. I want to say to everybody that I'm sorry about the format of my =
posts (top-posting, poorly formatted replies, etc).  Unfortunately, my =
family moved and we no longer have an ISP. So in the meantime, I have to =
use my school's email address and "webmail" application.  Sorry!