Peter Henry
Senior Member
Yes, someone disagreed with me that the M series is actualy more powerful or equal but you can't look at cycle numbers alone since the pipelining and instruction sets are very difference in both (hence the lower power consumption). Depending on tha task at hand they will benchmark differently. Same goes with say a AMD and Intel cpu will process the work load differently, one is better at a different task.
No way.. yer kidding.. you'd blink if you knew what I paid for my Tosh.. but then again that was a few years ago and I've taken that work horse to the Gulf and other interesting places since =)
You might want to look at the Alien Ware laptops as they have an interesting upgrade modular setup where it's one of the few companies that you can upgrade by changing the video and cpu modules over the time.. it's costlier I am sure but don't know by how much. Worth a look..
A desk top with the specs you're looking at could easily be gotten for under $1000 with monitor.. of course a lot of this depends on what kind of monitor you're willing to spend on etc.. but to get a 3.2G HT cpu and 1G DDR mem, toss in a decent vid card (9700 pro is tons what ya need for this kind of stuff.. and still give you lot's of head space for expansion and upgrade..
if you gots the coins to spend, "Go big or Stay Home".. =)
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