On Thursday 10 Apr 2003 12:59 pm, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > What exactly is the Pentium-M chip? I checked the Intel site recently > > but couldn't see anything about the difference between a Pentium-M and > > P3/P4. > > Similar to Mobile Athlon but a bit better. Partially redesigned Pentium > processor, with better average CPI rate (read: 30-50 better performance > for the same clock speed) and better powermanagement. Means a bit longer > battery run time in combination with their new mobile chipset. But with half the L2 cache (and possibly L1, im not sure) so, for instance when i was running fluid flow simulations (64x64x4 3D matrix operations) it would take about 5 minutes, on a desktop p2 with slightly lower clock it would take about 3 minutes and on a 2G P4 about 60 seconds. Basically they are crap for any sort of large scale data processing but they run pretty cool, and dont need a fan until you start working them hard which is good. I would still rather have a mobile pentium than a desktop chip in a laptop. As far as reccomendations, IBM make good solid laptops (this is an a22m @1Ghz) and it works really really well. Tom
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