New Core Duo/Windows bug

[imported_haris]

Anyone see the new bug that THG managed to find? Sounds like the battery life goes down the toilet if you plug in any USB2 device.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: haris
Anyone see the new bug that THG managed to find? Sounds like the battery life goes down the toilet if you plug in any USB2 device.

Solution: Never buy first-generation hardware Revision 2 is usually the way to go.

 

[stardrek]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Solution: Never buy first-generation hardware Revision 2 is usually the way to go.

Being someone who has Rambus 1066 RAM in one of my systems, I can say that sometimes Rev. 2 is still to early

 

[IntelUser2000]

Ha! And Core Duo laptops STILL get better battery life. If it really is microsoft's problem and they release a fix for it, they'll go wayyy past Dothan based looking at Toms test there.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: IntelUser2000
Ha! And Core Duo laptops STILL get better battery life. If it really is microsoft's problem and they release a fix for it, they'll go wayyy past Dothan based looking at Toms test there.

I dont trust toms with anything.

 

[IntelUser2000]

I dont trust toms with anything.

You know its pretty funny with all Tomshardware hatred and everythng. I personally don't go Tomshardware with their results but the way I see it, the only problem with them is that they don't put identical configuration to compared sometimes. Other than that, I think they are not skewing the results or anything.

If you look at their first Core Duo review where Core Duo laptop gets significant less battery life than Pentium M based one, if you look at the video card, Core Duo has X1600 mobility with 512MB of Video RAM while the Pentium M based one uses like X300 with 128MB Video RAM.

If you look at benchmarks with P4 chips, you see they overclock P4 chips while leaving AMD's alone, and that's their fault.

But I don't think they are really skewing the results.