Can't find a thing on the web, thought I'd ask the crowd here if they have any thought on the performance difference between the original Centrino gigabit implementations (mostly intel based) and the new Sonoma/Alvisio PCIe gigabit ethernet (all non-intel).
All I could find on the two was that it seems most of the original Centrino gigabit ethernet was based on an Intel PCI controller (82540EP PCI) while the initial Sonoma based notebooks are based on the Broadcom PCIe chipset (BCM5751M PCIe).
In theory the PCIe gig controller should clean the Intel contollers clock but then there is the Broadcom vs Intel issue.
I know the (relatively) slow laptop hard drives will hamper performance somewhat for simple transfers, but most of what I have hosted on my gigabit connected servers never see the local hard drive.
Has anyone here seen a GigEthernet comparson between the two platforms?
Thanks!
