[Pc_Support] Are "Core Duo" and "Dual Core" synonymous terms? <EOM>

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:16:49 -0400, "Bryan J. Smith"
<thebs413 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Damien McKenna wrote:
> > Mostly.  The initial Core Duo and Core Solo processors didn't have
> > the x86-64 enhancements, only the Core 2 Duo line.
> 
> Er, it represents Intel's new "Core" IA-32 (x86) design.
> And then "Core 2" adds IA-32e (aka EM64T).
> 
> Thanx for pointing out that I should have _not_ added "-64" there for all Cores.
> I really don't know why I did -- I meant to say "IA-32" (not x86-anything).
> 
> > ... and Core 2 Duo is the second generation of their "Core" line.
> 
> Correct.  And there are "Core 2 Solo" products as well (just not very
> commonplace).

I recently saw some benchmarks for the new quad cores from Intel.  For
the first time in a long time, Intel has something that can smoke AMD
on performance.  AMD will always smoke Intel on price...

I'll post the URL to the benchmarks if anyone is interested (I don't
have it handy right now).

Regards,
Ozz.
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