Dothan benchmarks (w/ 9700)

[ATilaptops]

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...0/asus-m6.html

Have fun! 2GHz Dothan and 64MB 9700 beat a 3.2GHz P4 and 9600 in 3dmark

[Sandro]

Wow, I can't wait until Intel gets Dothan up to desktops. That should be really interesting.

[serotone9]

that looks totally sweet. interesting that the dothan battery life is so much less, just as some suspected it might be. nice notebook!

[ATilaptops]

Originally posted by serotone9
that looks totally sweet. interesting that the dothan battery life is so much less, just as some suspected it might be. nice notebook!

Yeah, that is sort of a drag, but I think we're still looking at like 3 hours right? And it scores like 1000 over the Banias.

I'm gonna be getting one of those so, and I need good battery life, I knew it'd take a hit with the extra cache=morepower=less battery life thing, but it doesn't take up too much does it? I think it still got 234 min? That's almost 4 hours still, the Banias scored what? 292 IIRC, that's about 5 hours, so a loss of an hours, not too bad for an extra 1000 marks and the ability to rn Far Cry at medium details at 10x7 smoothly (as was confirmed in a thread on a notebooks review site, by a mod with one of those laptops). Maybe I should get the Banias? But the Dothan costs the same, and I've wanted one for a long time so...yeah.

[Sandro]

If you're worried about battery life, you can get a second battery to use in the media bay. In some cases, that can bring battery life up to 8 hours. Don't know how it will affect Dothan-based notebooks but it's still an option.

That and fuel cells might be coming in 2005.

[ATilaptops]

Originally posted by Sandro
If you're worried about battery life, you can get a second battery to use in the media bay. In some cases, that can bring battery life up to 8 hours. Don't know how it will affect Dothan-based notebooks but it's still an option.

That and fuel cells might be coming in 2005.

Yeah I realized that, just todya my friend told me so, but the problem is that the only time I'd need that battery life would be palyin' a game and th I'd need the media drive..sort of contradictory Battery life is fine though.

[masteraleph]

Originally posted by Sandro
If you're worried about battery life, you can get a second battery to use in the media bay. In some cases, that can bring battery life up to 8 hours. Don't know how it will affect Dothan-based notebooks but it's still an option.

That and fuel cells might be coming in 2005.

Fuel cells are currently a major issue right now actually. The problem is not merely the technology, it's finding a safe technology- something you can't use as a bomb on an airplane, for example.

[ATilaptops]

Originally posted by masteraleph
Fuel cells are currently a major issue right now actually. The problem is not merely the technology, it's finding a safe technology- something you can't use as a bomb on an airplane, for example.

I figured that might be a problem.

[Sandro]

Originally posted by masteraleph
Fuel cells are currently a major issue right now actually. The problem is not merely the technology, it's finding a safe technology- something you can't use as a bomb on an airplane, for example.

Right! These are probably the same people that say you can't bring GI-Joes or Transformers on planes as well.

Yeah I realized that, just todya my friend told me so, but the problem is that the only time I'd need that battery life would be palyin' a game and th I'd need the media drive..sort of contradictory Battery life is fine though.

There's always Daemon Tools, assuming you've got enough space to run CD images from.

[masteraleph]

Originally posted by Sandro
Right! These are probably the same people that say you can't bring GI-Joes or Transformers on planes as well.

Ermmmm...fuel cells are a bit more of a problem than GI Joe or Transformers.

Essentially, fuel cells generate power through the combining of oxygen and hydrogen. With current technology, there are two ways to get enough hydrogen to power a fuel cell:

1) Pure H2
2) Carbon-hydrogen fuel, such as methane, ethanol, etc.

This is a big probelm, seeing as either of the above types of substances can easily be turned into a bomb. Ergo, there's a need to either find safer sources of hydrogen, or else a foolproof way of storing it.

Incidentally, this is also an issue with fuel cell based cars. The ideal with these would be to run off of H2- if all you're combining with the Oxygen is Hydrogen, then the only waste product you're creating is water. However, the storage of pure Hydrogen, as well as the transport, are all extremely dangerous- imagine an urban gas station, full of hydrogen, that some terrorist blows up. Or for something that requires less criminal activity, a big car accident, where all the cars are carrying H2.

[nanokooshball]

but doesn't gasoline have the same problem and as dangerous? I mean if you set fire to you car its gonna blow up just like hydrogen rite?