Laptop processor

They are running the 32 bit version of VISTA, and will *NOT* run the final release version at its native 64 bit. While Vista may ship as both 32 and 64 bit, the 32 bit version will not have anywhere near the capabilities (UI Aero Glbutt included).

Microsoft will have you believe their EM64T chips are "64 bit" (hint: they are not). Intel will have you believe their D cores are Dual Core (Hint: they are not). Those that have mental capacities above bovine level can readily learn that Intel is hopelessly mired in old technology.

I used to be the biggest supporter of Intel, but then they got fat and lazy (not to mention greedy). AMD has taken the crown and deservedly so. Had Intel been the one to pioneer 64 bit consumer procs and consumer dual core, they would still be king. Sad to see them stumbling so badly. Meanwhile, AMD makes true 64 bit chips, and true dual core 64 bit chips.

Quote from a November 17th article in PC World by Tom Kravitz:

"Presler is Intel's first desktop processor built on the company's 65-nanometer processing technology. It is technically a dual-core processor, but is really a multichip module consisting of two separate desktop processors fused into a single package. This design is cheaper and easier to implement than melding two processor cores onto a single chip, especially two cores with the power-consumption problems that have characterized Intel's desktop chips in recent years."

AMD 64 bit X2 Dual core processors have a crossbar that allows the two cores to communicate directly on the die. Intel procs can only communicate by going out through the Northbridge chip and then back in. Intel chose to simply glue two single P4 cores back to back, without connecting them directly in any manner, and then call them dual core. Of course, if you are Intel, and you have 300,000,000 (that's three hundred million) dollars to spend on advertising, you can convince the general public that the old tech that you are peddling is something new.

Please do yourself a favor and make an attempt to make an unbiased comparison of *anything* Intel offers compared to what AMD has to offer. Look at the architecture on the motherboards that support the chips. Look at what they can do. If you can do this, without bias, then you will see that AMD clearly makes a superior product. If, however, you continue to blindly place faith in what Intel claims it can do, as opposed to what its chips can do in reality, you will see that they are far behind on all levels.

Bobby