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Lab Rats

Monday February 1, 2010

Andy and Sean take a look at Intel's currently consumer-friendly CPU lineup and get a glimpse at the new products just announced at CES 2010.

Should I buy an Atom processor?

Should I bother with Celeron?

Pentium? Dual core, Core 2 Quad? i7, i5?

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Show Notes

Intel Processors:

Atom = low power processor chips.

Celeron = rock-bottom pricing on a single-core processor.

Pentium - a mainstream performance dual-core processor valued for a budget.

Core 2 Duo = small form-factor performance computers.

Core 2 Quad = robust performance computer at a slight increase in cost.

Core i5 = a desktop only quad-core processor with hyper-threading technology.

Core i7 = a quad-core processor with hyper-threading technology. Core i7 has a turbo-boost technology.

More on the AMD CPU lineup here: labratsonline.com/amd-cpu.

What is a 32-bit application? More here: labratsonline.com/32bit.

What is a 64-bit application? More here: labratsonline.com/64bit.

For those who don't remember Pentium D: labratsonline.com/pentium-d.

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By arranmc182 about three years ago
(2010-02-08 12:48:23)

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AMD I tend to find have there naming of CPU's all most good just some times the Althlon 64 ends up in laptops witch is stupid as it eats more battery than the Turion at the same clock speed. I start with low end and up to top end (think this is right) Athlon Neo (Notebooks only) Semperon Turion (Notebooks only) Athlon 64 Phenom Opteron (Workstation/Server)

By ted_g about three years ago
(2010-02-05 10:39:14)

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While that is true. Consider, that as of today 5 Feb 2010, there are still at least 12 Pentium Desktop Processors that being still being fabricated and sold, per this Intel page link < http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyId=41877 >.