[TriLUG] Shopping for new laptop...

[Warren Myers]

true - and with 4800 and 5400 rpm drives still fairly standard (espy on
cheap laptops), drive access will *always* be the slowdown.

admittedly, my laptop's got a 100G 7200rpm drive, but it's a company one :)

WMM

On 7/12/07, David Brain <dbrain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/12/07, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> >
> > says that the dual core opterons have no extra memory
> > bandwidth than the single cores. I was at OLS about 2 weeks
> > ago, and from what I heard, it's the same for all the
> > multicore processors.
> >
>
> Right - but that's even true of multi cpu servers (at least non-exotic
> NUMA boxes) never mind dual core.  There is an _awful lot_ of memory
> bandwidth on modern machines,  to the point where the bottleneck is
> far more likely to be something else like disk or your PCI(e,-X or
> whatever) bus, especially on a laptop.
>
> David.
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