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I just downloaded this P2P software that supposedly helps the search for a cure against cancer. Now, of course I understand that intel is not *that* philantropic as not to try to use this program to do some marketing.. but I cant help being a bit upset by the "device information" part.
First off, I run this program on 500 Mhz Celery laptop, a P3 1 Ghz and a 1 ghz Atlhon. The "processor performance index" shows a number as how your computer compares to "average high desktop", of course being a P4 1.5. What bothers me, is that they simply compare clock speeds.. showing my P3 2X as fast as my Celeron, and identical to the Atlhon setup. This is yet one other way of intel to market Mhz as performance. I would have been a *lot* fairer to show how many units the machine calculates per hour (more interesting also)..
Then you have the network part.. I have Xircom 10/100 Mbit LAN card that operates at 100 Mbit.. this gives me a score of 19/100 compared to an intel PRO 100 Man... ? uh ???? Not sure what they are comparing.. but could someone show me a 500 Mbit UTP network card ?
Then they also compare available memory and allocated harddisk space, that simply makes no sense.. Overall, my Atlhon scores 32 to 100 for the reference P4.. what a joke. I wouldnt be surprised if it actually performed as good as the P4.
.. just thinking, that maybe I shouldnt post this message, as we risk yet another AMD vs Intel flame thread....
First off, I run this program on 500 Mhz Celery laptop, a P3 1 Ghz and a 1 ghz Atlhon. The "processor performance index" shows a number as how your computer compares to "average high desktop", of course being a P4 1.5. What bothers me, is that they simply compare clock speeds.. showing my P3 2X as fast as my Celeron, and identical to the Atlhon setup. This is yet one other way of intel to market Mhz as performance. I would have been a *lot* fairer to show how many units the machine calculates per hour (more interesting also)..
Then you have the network part.. I have Xircom 10/100 Mbit LAN card that operates at 100 Mbit.. this gives me a score of 19/100 compared to an intel PRO 100 Man... ? uh ???? Not sure what they are comparing.. but could someone show me a 500 Mbit UTP network card ?
Then they also compare available memory and allocated harddisk space, that simply makes no sense.. Overall, my Atlhon scores 32 to 100 for the reference P4.. what a joke. I wouldnt be surprised if it actually performed as good as the P4.
.. just thinking, that maybe I shouldnt post this message, as we risk yet another AMD vs Intel flame thread....