MacBook Pro Benchmarked

Jacqui Cheng reviewing Apple's @1,999 MacBook Pro at Arstechnica.com and bechmark it with XBench 1.2. The result, the macbook pro scored 8. From the article: "Some of these results are surprising, and some are not. For one, the Aluminum PowerBook G4 mysteriously scored higher on the User Interface test than both of the other machines. Both the AlBook and the Dell scored higher on the disc test, which makes sense in the case of the AlBook, since it has a 7200rpm drive. The CPU test results were rather close for all three with some minor differences, and of course the MacBook Pro spanked the AlBook on the Thread test (while beating the Dell by a smaller margin). On the memory test, the MacBook Pro's RAM was significantly faster than the PowerBook G4. Isn't it nice to have a real FSB in an Apple portable?"

Complete review here.
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DIY Replacing laptop's Chip

Instead of paying Dell $1100 to replace their laptop motherboard, some guys at project oxcart opted to buy $5 chip and the entire day to replace the failed chip. Find the entire article here.

[via hackaday]
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Google will switch to Opteron

Ashlee Vance in Mountain View wrote at theregister com that Google has become an Opteron convert. This switch mean energy saving. Original from the article : "AMD has long claimed and proven in various tests - that it has a serious performance per watt advantage over Intel. Power savings have risen to priority number one at Google as energy costs and energy supply have become constraints."

[TheRegister]
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