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From: Darrell Martin <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tmg on celeron
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:27:25 -0500 (GMT-05:00)


Greetings:

The crux of this discussion (which I find interesting) is that for the vast majority of TMG users, even those with very large databases and numerous big graphic exhibits, the selection of the CPU is not going to matter very much. Of course, "not broken" and "configured properly" are _sine qua non_. But whatever the manufacturer, the brand, or the model of the chip, once you get past the "486" and equivalents, the CPU architecture rapidly fades as a factor in TMG performance. The following, listed in no particular order, are much more important:

CPU clock speed and cooling
Memory
How many programs you run simultaneously
Hard drive speed, cache, and size
How clean and stable your Windows installation is
How well your CPU is matched to your version of Windows
Whether you have optimized your TMG data in the current geological epoch [grin]
Screen "real estate"

Darrell

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Husemann <>
Sent: Oct 22, 2004 12:49 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tmg on celeron

gordon,

The better answer is that the Centrino is the best of both the
Pentium3 and Pentium 4 processors. And a Much better designed
processor than the Pentium 4 line.

Personally one of the reasons I dropped Intel is the move to the Much
less efficient Pentium 4 IP. I would gladly buy a desktop or notebook
based on the centrino platform.

Douglas




Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter in exile in Illinois


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