MP?

Nope, the athlon MP is for servers/workstations. I think the MP means Multiple Processor. Thats why it's so expensive. The Athlon 4 is for laptops. It is supposed to be alot faster than intel laptops i dont know if this is true being that i haven't seen any benchmarks yet.

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>what Athlon MP? and why is it so expensive?

AthlonMP is a Palimino core Athlon intended for dual processor machines. The CPU itself is moderately expensive wrt other Athlons. The kicker is the motherboard, which goes for about $550. A couple reasons for this:

- The only dual athlon motherboard is the Tyan Thunder K7, as soon as other stuff becomes available, competition will do wonders for the price!

- The Tyan board is aimed at the server & high-end workstation environment, and has built-in everything (2 NIC, SCSI, IDE, sound, graphics, etc.). If you look at boards for this market, the price isn't to outrageous. Take a look at Xeon MB.


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MP stands for multi processor... theyre chips ment for servers... based on the palomino core... there is a laptop palomino due soon and a desktop one soon after... i, expecting a new duron soon too...

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Actually, I've been seeing Compaq Athlon4 laptops out there already, from places like TigerDirect (and I <i>still</i> can't figure how I got on TigerDirect's mailing list...).

As for kicking the P3's ass, the Athlon4 laptops most certainly will performance-wise. They've been benchmarked as being somewhat faster than desktop T-birds, and desktop T-birds already whip the P3.

The problem (at least the one problem I might have with the Athlon4 notebooks) is their power consumption. I have a hard enough time getting my P3 laptop battery to last all the way through a single DVD, and the CPU clocks down to 500 MHz when unplugged! An Athlon4, unfettered by PowerNow!, still consumes twice the wattage of a 1GHz P3. The only hope of getting around these power consumption issues is PowerNow!, but frankly, I'm not sure how far that can go. I'd have to see some battery-life benchmarks first.

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