Comparing Apples and Oranges (or Via and Intel CPUs on a clock by clock basis)

Comparing Apples and Oranges
(or Via and Intel CPUs on a clock by clock basis)

Posted March 5, 2008 under eeepc

As the number of EeePC-sized machines increases we are seeing more and more comparisons. And the more of them I see, the more I am disturbed about the cluelessness of some reviewers (no offense…).

Look at this comparison of the HP 2133 vs. EeePC 900. Specifically look at the table at the bottom. Green means better. The Via C7-M runs at more than 1GHz, the Intel CPU quoted runs at 900MHz. Argl.

First - I have yet to see any public information on the CPU used in the EeePC 900. And second, as I mentioned before in the Cloudbook vs EeePC 701 comparison, a Via C7-m at twice the frequency is still slightly slower than a Celeron M.

Vista on a machine like the HP 2133 would be seriously painful.

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