sorry to butt in, but as my current laptop is dying a slow and painful death (by eating its own RAM), I'm likely soon to be faced once again with one of the eternal questions: AMD or Intel?
well, i don't think the question is this easy ... you could ask "celeron or centrino or amd or ... ?", you could ask, "does my favourite software make full use of my hardware?", you could ask, "how does my distribution build binaries?" ...
running on pentium-m/gentoo(CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse")/devel_0_39(enabling hardware DAZ), i haven't had a denormal problem for ages ...
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