Kentsfield isn't much of an alien buster

I have a Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop, and I couldn't find this particular model listed with the other affected laptops, but I am concerned that it might be. Can you tell me if it is? And what I should do?

Thank you.

Bert

Subject: kentsfield *is* in the wild.

Just a little note to you here, but there have been several kentsfields on xtremesystems.com for quite a while now. Indeed, one of these kentsfields is currently crunching Rosetta@Home for team XS and currently holds the number #1 machine spot. Not exactly "news" as they've been around since late june - early july ;)

bloodysorcerer

Subject: Quad Core 2 Not That Great On SetiPoints. After reading the specs on theat Quad Core Duo, and digging upsome old specs from seti from my WindowsXP SP2 Dual AMD AthlonMP 1900(1.66Ghz) -- note these scores are over one year old, on arch that is, well 7 years old.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1109295

Created 23 Jun 2005 23:39:38 UTC
Total Credit 1,478.89,
Recent average credit 0.00
CPU type AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1900+
Number of CPUs 2
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
Memory 1023.46 MB
Cache 976.56 KB
Swap space 2425.84 MB
Total disk space 34.18 GB
Free Disk Space 7.26 GB
Measured floating point speed 1513 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 2558.69 million ops/sec
Average upload rate 1.12 KB/sec
Average download rate 99.16 KB/sec
Average turnaround time 14 days

Compare that with the QuadCoreDuo2

Created 30 Mar 2006 3:54:29 UTC
Total Credit 107,928.35
Recent average credit 2,712.31
CPU type GenuineIntel
Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.66GHz
Number of CPUs 4
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
Memory 2044.82 MB
Cache 976.56 KB
Measured floating point speed 3460.19 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 1618.23 million ops/sec
Average upload rate 4.11 KB/sec
Average download rate Unknown
Average turnaround time 1.35 days
Maximum daily WU quota per CPU 1/day

That Makes The QuadCoreDuo2 only 2.2869729 times faster at floating point

And My DualAMDAthlon1900(1.66Hz) 1.5807394 faster at interger speed.

Kinda wierd results.

Considering that Seti and windows automagically spawns threads, so there should have been four...I know that memory bandwidth is divided by four, but that motherboard running the mysterious quad4duo should be running FBDIMS, which is what Intels next server proc should be, and Intel selling server processors to gamers is standard.

Know what I mean.

And even still is that most of Seti's work should be able to stay in the Cache, that should be that fastest considering the quad4duo should have had anywhere from 4Mb to 16Mb of Cache right??

Wimpy I think.

My thoughts, not your,

BrunoB

Subject: Kentfield.

Doesn't look like he's the only one.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2317507
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2587671
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2487095
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2318815
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2546975

Massive variation in scores there.

Morgan.

Subject: Apples and Portuguese. Not sure but i believe that, in Portugal, Apple would simply be summarily ordered by the court to pay the people they are suing, the court's expences and probably would be fined for misconduct. You don't get the exclusive right to the use of a word that is used everyday just because your product sells very well... The same would apply to Intel's 'Core'...

Tim

Subject: Amy learned a lesson in life

Supporting theft of copyright protected goods is not morally nor ethically sound. Thus biting the hand that feeds you is a very unwise thing to do. Obviously Amy hasn't learned the realities of life yet.

Randy

Subject: Intel quad cores are out in the alien wild.

I see you have been a busy little beaver. When I was racing . I was rather good. Than all of the sudden the cars formate changed . We went to mod type cars and i sucked at it . It was so disheartening. I had such a heavy foot I couldn't get the car to work .

Than my son wanted to race. I told him ok as long as he did everthing I told him it would workout. So I made him start iout in mods. I also said a light foot was the only way to get good . Also to stay on the bottom of the race track.

With his very good foot control and me watching we were able to find a great set up . My son is soon tho blossom into a great driver. Even tho he knows little or nothing about cars I do . By me observering the car well he drives we were able to make all four wheels get maxiium results while all others are using only 3 wheels as the left front is always off the ground on all cars but ours . By doing this we are able to drive under them out of the corners with max traction at rge rear wheels of our car. The ans for me in racing turned out to be a partner ship between myself and my son. Threw innovation

Davidd

Subject: Nordic Nations vs. Apple: You ignore the Kalmar Union.

Dear Sir

Your contention that Denmark, Norway and Sweeden has not been united since the 11th century is doubious at best.

Queen Magrethe (I) (1353-1412) managed to get her Sisters grandson Eric crowned as King of all of Denmark, Norway, Sweeden in the Kalmar Union i 1397 and the union lasted till 1448. The Countries remained independent but were ruled by the same queen/king - and committed to common defence against outside enemies.

Defence against IP marked domination/monopoly abuse was not a major issue at the time and thus iTunes is not a major subject of the treaty.

The union text (in contemporary danish) can be found on http://www.natmus.dk/saer/margrete/unionsbr.htm.

Yours Respectfully

Sune Horlyck

Subject: way to go guys .

As soon as I read the title for the Dell battery article I couldn't help but think "It's all the INQs fault for posting those exploding battery stories".

Mangler

Subject: Are Google mad?

If I was a multi-million dollar company, I would bt over-joy'd to see our company name used so loosely in everyday speech.

"Go google the web for.."

Where do you go when you're googling? GOOGLE.

In terms of marketing and popularity, they couldn't be luckier! I think they're barmy (and actually quite out of character) to be damning such phrases.

It's not as if it's derogatory?

Tom.

Subject: Subject: laptop battery.

I have inspiron 9300 10 months old battery D5318,capacity 53 wh. is it safe.

Robin

Subject: Yay! Another one!.

Gee, just what I had hoped for when I woke up this morning, another article about 'random obscure model chick'. I'd love to know what relevance she has to the site?

Do you decide to post "What everwhere girl had for lunch today" stories only on slow news days, or because the advertisers think it's a good idea?

Instead of wasting a headline space why not make if amusing, perhaps claim you are sleeping with her, or she's stalking you, come up with something, I know you can.

naoki