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Re: [LUG] Laptop as a desktop replacement

 

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, tom wrote:

If you can wait a little while AMD are bringing out 6 core CPU's for am3 sockets which will give you about 1.5 times more bang per buck than an intel machine.
Cant find where I read it last nite though...

The regsiter:

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/low_cost_amd_six_core_parts/

Whetstone dream perhaps...

Er ... Bridge those thoughts!

Not sure it'll have a place in a laptop though.

My desktop is a dial-core Atom and it's actually been OK for the past 8-10 months I've had it. I have tweaked the kernel and keep it as "lean" as possible, but with the use of flash & Ad blockers and firefox it works just fine.

Gordon

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