I am thinking about a new PC and see that Athlon processor machines are a bit cheaper than Pentiums.
Does anybody now if a 1 GHz Athlon processor will run real-world apps at about the same speed as a 1 GHz Pentium III? If not any idea on the relative speeds?
Are there any other reasons why AMD is better/worse than Intel?
In short, yes. The Athlon 1GHz is faster in most applications than a P3 1GHz, and the 1.2 GHz Athlon is even faster than the 1.5GHz P4 in many applications.
