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To: Tony Viola who wrote (49506)	7/31/2001 7:23:31 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 275872

Tony, Re: Isn't there a best choice for A4? Then you could have a runoff. Hardly. So far every Athlon 4 laptops use (to my knowledge) the ALi chipset which performs sub-par even when equipped with DDR RAM -- but all A4 laptops are equipped with SDR. My guess would be that there's a performance loss (compared to a high performing AMD760 DDR solution) by about 10-15% in common applications by this. But if both PIII-M and A4 were equipped with SDR-RAM, the Tualatin would probably be a little bit faster overall. I don't know what a fair comparison between both processors would be, but it's no secret that Tualatin is held back by it's FSB so A4 can profit much more from DDR. Especially with its new hardware prefetching (which PIII-M has now, too, BTW). Andreas