PC World Story - PIII beats Althon 4

In Septembers PC World Magazine there is a very lame comparison of the new mobile .13 micron PIII to a Althon 4 laptop.

They conclude that the PIII beats the Althon 4 by 38% (210 Vs. 152 PC Worldbench Score). “with Intell’s PIII-M stealing the performance Thunder of the somewhat bulkier Althon 4….”

Based on the following two systems do you think this was a fair comparison?

PIII System - Dell 8100
1.113 Ghz CPU
256MB SDRAM
Geforce2go 32mb DDR

Althon 4 System - Compaq Presario 1200
1.0 Ghz CPU
128 SDRAM
ATI 8mb SDRAM

How can they compare processors in systems with a 13% clock speed difference, twice the Ram, and a much more robust video system? The mainstream press never wants to give AMD their due!

They based their entire review on a single benchmark?

"Ignorance is bliss, but I tend to get screwed over."

I don't think its fair. Anyone can put together a scenario in which one computer is shown to dominate another -- aka selective benchmarking.

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Oh Yea, I forgot to mention that the PIII system was running win2k and the AMD had winME.

dude, stop crying your a$$ off, deal with it! the P3 mobile is better, cooler, smarter! get used to it because, the Athlon4 is getting beat by a P3-s with same clock but lower fsb and sdram, what a shame!

"<b>AMD/VIA!</b>...you are <i>still</i> the weakest link, good bye!"

I'm not going to comment on the processors at the same speed. The 1.13 will probably be faster, but that's for you to decide. However, Dell makes better computers than Compaq. In addition, Win2k is much more stable, and since you'll be buying everything from Dell no worries about incompatibilities, so win2k is the better OS in this case also.

i can just see the reviewers with big stickers on their foreheads that read "Moron Inside"

the sad thing is that people unknowledgable about computers may be swayed by that review

"i love the smell of Overclocking in the morning!" Says my Hamster.

i havent believed a word from pc world since i bought my 66mhz packard bell... unbeatable prices... uhm... yeh... right... die evil b!tch queen die...

you do not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong

lol i always hated pc world eversince they forced me to buy their stupid subscription. I had some legal thing in the mail saying i owed them money? i have no idea...

STAY AWAY FROM PC WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

with that said, that should tell you that pc world is a crock and biased and definitly plagued with bureaucracy.

for one Dells are superior compared to a compaq... just the fact that the dell laptop IS more expensive and at a higher clock has more RAM and double the RAM compared to the compaq, has a much better video solution and then say the dell is better .. well duh! I think they were just compareing the two companies top dawg laptop.

top dell vs top compaq. You know a techno-illiterate writer when he writes about the computers when they refere to the chip as the computer instead of the actual computer.

it's a case of "duh"! 5 is higher then 3 lol ya know?

thats my point of view of it...

Do you actually believe what you think?

ya ... it looked legit to me and i didn't wanna go to jail for a measly 20 bucks ...

Do you actually believe what you think?

It kind of like how Tom's Hardware is baised toward AMD and always find a way to make AMD the better processor no matter what they are comparing. I believe that Tom's Hardware would find a way to make the K6-2 beat out a top of the line Intel P4 1.8ghz.

LOL, BTW, K6-2 is Mhz vs. Mhz faster at least in some areas (like RC-5/OGR numeric crunching etc.) than P4... so what?