Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:33:50 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706051533500.27212@hymn09.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4665DA3C.20904@andric.com>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dimitry Andric wrote: > eculp@encontacto.net wrote: >> As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64 with >> nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me over to >> AMD in addition to past experience has always been good with them. > > Please note that the new Core 2 Duo's have "EM64T", as Intel calls it, > which is functionally equivalent to amd64 (at least mostly :). You can > run amd64 software on them without modifications. Yeah, the general playing (architecture specs) field's the same, but each brand has their own advantages and drawbacks. -Garrett
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