In article <0dbgu0110o11vaa0p9qc0df88g11il4c43@4ax.com>, f/f george
<george@yourplace.com> writes

I had my moms new laptop for a couple of weeks, testing it and loading
software etc, and it had a 1.6 Intel Centrino with a 2 meg L2 cache!!!
It would do 1 Classic unit in about 1 hour 40 minutes, when doing 1
unit at a time. When I cranked it up to 4 units at 1 time it slowed
down to almost 2 hours per unit.
I was running XP Home, CLI version of Classic, SetiDriver caching the
local units and SetiQueue caching the external units.
The switch over from a completed unit to getting and starting a new
unit took almost 2 minutes due to the lack of available onboard
memory, I think if I had lowered the units down to only 3 at a time
that would have been reduced. Networking was not an issue because it
was literally next to the router.
The machine had 512 meg of ram.

I think the Intel exception is the Centrino. Certainly the FPU seems to
be as efficient as those on AMD processors, unlike the Intel P4. A CPU
of choice using Intel systems would be the Centrino. Those running at
2.0+ Ghz seem to giver very good WU times, especially those with large
L2 (I stand corrected) caches.

Keep crunching : ))

-- 
John Clark