AMD Beats Intel in Quad-Core Server Power Efficiency: Neal Nelson
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| These new test results were collected with Neal Nelson’s Power Efficiency
| Benchmark which is a client server test where up to 500 world wide web users
| from 32 separate computers submit individual transactions to a server running
| the Apache2 web server software, the MySQL relational database and Novell’s
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system. The benchmark has a complex
| multi-user load with a large memory footprint, a high volume of context
| switches, significant network traffic and substantial amounts of physical
| disk I/O.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080114/20080114006249.html?.v=1
Related:
Why the XO Laptop is better than the Classmate
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| There's been some awful FUD flying around the OLPC world in the last few
| days, with misquotes, misinformation, and flat out lies being propagated left
| and right. Even Engadget, one of the better geektech blogs out there, got it
| completely wrong regarding OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen's departure from the
| project.
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| [...]
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| Classmate is more expensive, consumes 10 times the power, has 1/3 the wifi
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| range, and can't be used outside. Also, the Classmate doesn't use neighboring
| laptops to extend the reach of the internet via hopping (mesh-networking)
| like the XO does. So not only is the XO cheaper than the Classmate, the XO
| requires less infrastructre expenditure for electricity and for internet
| access.
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http://planet-geek.com/archives/004331.html
Intel-powered XO is too expensive and consumes too much power
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| 2 days before Intel CEO Paul Otellini would unveil the Classmate 2 or the
| Intel-powered XO at the CES, Intel announced that they are quitting the OLPC
| board.
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| Intel claims that they are quitting because of Nicholas Negroponte wanting
| them to stop the promotion of the Classmate/Eee to education in third world
| countries, but I think that the real reason is that Intel does not have a
| good enough processor for the OLPC project to use as an alternative to the
| AMD Geode LX-700. Intel has not been able to develop a processor to match the
| price, power consumption and performance requirements of the OLPC project.
| Paul Otellini could have looked like a fool at the CES if he had to unveil an
| Intel powered XO that was performing worse in terms of price and power
| consumption compared to the AMD powered one.
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http://charbax.com/2008/01/04/intel-diamondville-and-menlow-processors-not-low-costpower-enough/
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