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Yonah rocks

Eug

Eug

Lifer
Intel Yonah Performance Preview - Part I: The Exclusive First Look at Yonah

"Although we didn't consider it as such here today , Yonah will be quite impressive on notebooks. The thought of having such a cool running dual core processor in a notebook is honestly amazing, and the performance difference (especially for multitaskers) over what we have today will be significant. The other thing to keep in mind is that when you go from a single core to a dual core Pentium M notebook, you won't be giving up anything at all. On the desktop side, you normally give up clock speed for dual core support, but Yonah will be running at very similar frequencies to what Dothan is running at today. In other words, you won't be giving up single threaded performance in favor of multi-threaded performance - you'll get the whole package."
 
Yonah is great for it's intended use. Mobile Computing. It's ever so slightly slower than an X2 at the same clockspeed (AMD's slowest Dual Core). That is to say, it beats most of intel's dual core line up 😛 But it's power usage appears to be excellent.

I have a feeling it's going to be a pricey chip though. But Intel seems to be working hard to hold onto their laptop throne. I will be interesting to see what AMD comes out with in response.

Still, at the end of the day, not much has changed. Intel is still leading the Mobile computing front while AMD is leading on desktops. A month ago I would go intel for mobile and AMD for desktop, it's the same thing today.
 
I'm kinda disappointed that the 1.66 GHz single-core Yonah with 2 MB L2 is listed at $200. The dual-core 1.66 is listed at $230. That means the only true "value" Yonah CPU is the 1.66 GHz single-core with 1 MB L2, and that's not coming out for a while yet.
 
Originally posted by: Eug
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Anand's dual-core Yonah 2.0 preview
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It may do pretty good right now, but it sucks seeing as it is still nearly a year out there.
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Not sure what you mean, but Yonah 2.0 (and 2.16) comes out a month from now.
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Lol...oops sorry about that. I am thinking of Intels next generation processor which is rumored to be based off of Yonah.

At any rate, i was still expecting something better (awesome chip, but i stand by my opinion).

-Kevin
 
You're thinking Merom & Conroe I'm guessing. That comes in the second half of 2006. I may wait for Merom too as my current laptop should be fine for the time being and I don't do much heavy lifting on my laptop anyway. w00t! 64-bit laptop! 😛 Actually, I'm more interested in getting a laptop that has something like the X1300 with H.264 transcode acceleration. A HD-DVD/Blu-Ray reader with DVD burner would be nice too. 🙂
 
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