Re: AMD 64 X Intel 32
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:29 -0500, Iuri Sampaio wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have two laptops and I need to decide which one is the best. The
> best in a long term, (i.e.: quality, performance, scalability and etc)
>
> So I’d like to hear from you guys which one would be my choice
>
> Compaq AMD Athlon64 2.0GHz
Sweet
> 1GB RAM
Perfect
> 80 GB Hard Disk
Kinda small
> Video card: ATI Radeon 128mb dedicated.
Last I saw, Radeon X.org drivers were not so good.
> CD-DVD Burner
Standard
>
> Sony VAIO Intel 32bits 1.86ghz
Pentium-M? If so, good.
> 1GB RAM
See above.
> 120GB HD
Better than 80GB!
> Video card: NVIDIA 128mb dedicated
This is the video card of choice for Linux. The (closed-source)
3D driver is excellent.
> CD-DVD Burner
What will you be using it for? "Desktop stiff", or graphics and/
or computationally intensive work?
Best is to try and find a laptop with an Athlon64 and NVIDIA graphics
chip.
Will you be wanting wireless?
If it *must* be between these two laptops:
For "desktop stuff": laptop with the NVIDIA chip, installing 32-bit
Debian, for easy compatibility with mplayer, OpenOffice.org2, Acro-
read, Macromedia Flash, etc.
For graphically intensive work: laptop with the NVIDIA chip, for
the 3D binary driver.
For computationally intensive work: the AMD64, installing 64-bit
Debian or Ubuntu.
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