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Pentium M does well...Pentium M does well...Posted Jun 8, 2005 0:54 UTC (Wed) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)In reply to: Lower power consumption by joedrew Parent article: Yellow Dog Linux sticks with PowerPC ...mostly 'coz it's a P3 at heart, not a P4. However, AMD are dancing some pretty fancy steps these days as well. Besides, if Apple built some of their boxes with AMDs, particularly multi-CPU servers since HyperTransport makes that so easy, it would help to keep Intel in line.
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Pentium M does well... Posted Jun 8, 2005 3:52 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] Absolutely. In fact, according to Tom's hardware, P4 is one of the most power hungry monstrosities ever created. Especially when you "step on it". So, this "5 times more performance per watt than PPC" thing surely must be some new thing, not P4.
The only advantage P4 has over other chips is marketing. Your average mums and dads are more likely to buy something that is "3 GHz" than something that's _only_ "2 GHz". That's why Intel crippled the chip in order to achieve high clock rates.
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