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EP and all, more evidence of "QuantiSpeed" confusion:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1043446,00.asp

"The new Fujitsu LifeBook S2010 features the Athlon XP-M 1700+. The Fujitsu LifeBook S6120 houses either the 1.4- or 1.6-GHz Intel Pentium M and is a full-fledged Centrino notebook (meaning it incorporates Intel's 802.11b wireless networking solution). The 1.6-GHz Intel machine we received for review won't be available until June; the 1.4-GHz system will be out by the time you read this. Comparing the 1.6-GHz Intel chip with the 1700+ is fair, since AMD's performance rating (the "1700+" in the chip's name) indicates that AMD is expecting the pep of a 1.7-GHz chip, even though the actual clock speed is 1.47 GHz."

The Athlon-XP then proceeds to get trounced by the Pentium-M. That shouldn't be any surprise to those in the know, because the "QuantiSpeed" rating is meant to be a comparison to a Pentium 4, not a Pentium-M. But who bothered to tell PCMag? Or the average layman, for that matter?

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