PaternityTest Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 The performance is what was expected .. exactly like a dual pentium Ms. however this thing is gonna suck down battery life like crazy 108w under load isnt anything to brag about. yes its less than a x2 3800 but thats a desktop processor and designed accordingly. The Yonah is supposed to be the first in a series of processors redesigned from the "Ground Up" but i dont see anything ground breaking. If you wanna see a performance increase on a laptop how bout someone develop a Faster harddrive that doesnt overheat your system or drain your battery. The processor is not where mobile performance lacks its getting info in and out. We need better chipsets and fewer bottle necks. Wow my laptop can run two threads at one time but i still have to wait for the progam to load off the slow 5400 rpm hardrive or a battery killing 7200 rpm harddrive..:< Synthetic benchmarks are only going to show you the processors performance but not how much a performance difference the processor wil make for your laptop overall. This was not written to discredit anyones opinions but to point out that the processor is not what makes laptops performance uninspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted December 3, 2005 Author Share Posted December 3, 2005 The power consumption was for the entire system, not the CPUs themselves... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 I have to concur with the HDD being the main bottleneck on a mobile system. IDE drives hasn't changed much the past 10yrs. I guess we have to put faith on 40gig SD / flash drives on our mobiles. That technology is still a baby, but I hope to see something like that within 3yrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted December 3, 2005 Author Share Posted December 3, 2005 Also, 7200RPM laptop drives aren't much hotter nor do they use tons of power (a little more) than a 5400RPM drive. Compared to say a 4200 they use quite a bit more, though. Reviews show this, and I have a laptop I can swap a drive out on and compare for myself. http://storagereview.com/articles/200511/notebook_7.html They do use enough more that they aren't for some ultra mobile laptop, but definitely won't make a huge impact on the average one. Just wish I could hit fast forward a month. It could just end up being one x86 model added to the existing powerbook or ibook lines and have only a single core yonah for all we know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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