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I want to have a new laptop and I am confused between Centrino Technology and the regular one. What's the difference. Is Centrino at 1.6GHz as fast as a normal Intel 3.2GHz Processor. I know that Centrino consumes less battery power and therefore, increases battery life but I dont know whether I should go for Centrino 1.6Hz or not. Your ideas? I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles
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I want to have a new laptop and I am confused between Centrino Technology and the regular one. What's the difference. Is Centrino at 1.6GHz as fast as a normal Intel 3.2GHz Processor. I know that Centrino consumes less battery power and therefore, increases battery life but I dont know whether I should go for Centrino 1.6Hz or not. Your ideas? I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles
Probably not...although the 1.6 has 2MB L2 cache (compared to 1MB for the 3.2), the FSB for the 1.6 is only 400/533 MHz and the 3.2 is 800MHz. The 3.2 also is HT. See Intel Processor Number Details[^] Steve
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I want to have a new laptop and I am confused between Centrino Technology and the regular one. What's the difference. Is Centrino at 1.6GHz as fast as a normal Intel 3.2GHz Processor. I know that Centrino consumes less battery power and therefore, increases battery life but I dont know whether I should go for Centrino 1.6Hz or not. Your ideas? I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles
Aamir Butt wrote: Is Centrino at 1.6GHz as fast as a normal Intel 3.2GHz Processor No they are not. They are fine for many applications, but sth. like DevStudio is sluggish. (Sometimes as in "slug slug slug sluggish")
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I want to have a new laptop and I am confused between Centrino Technology and the regular one. What's the difference. Is Centrino at 1.6GHz as fast as a normal Intel 3.2GHz Processor. I know that Centrino consumes less battery power and therefore, increases battery life but I dont know whether I should go for Centrino 1.6Hz or not. Your ideas? I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles
Here's a good quote from SlashDot[^] : On Wednesday during the launch of its new Sonoma Centrino Mobile, Intel put on a demonstration running a video game on a laptop. It matched the performance of a high-end Pentium 4 desktop running the same game, declared Intel. The contenders were a laptop sporting a 2.13 GHz Pentium M processor, 1GB RAM, and the Alviso chipset versus a desktop with a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, 1GB RAM, and the Grantsdale chipset. Is this a testament to how far the Pentium Mobile architecture has come, or a sad comment on the clockspeed-pushing design of the Pentium 4? SlashDot[^] Here's Intel Centrino Page. Intel Centrino[^] This site will give you more than you'll really want to know. If you download at Intel's Performace Brief[^] check out page 15. Last night, after being up about 55 hours, I read something about Intel's next generation Centrino. Unfortunately I cannot login to the reseller site where I saw this (I guess even Intel's servers go down)
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Here's a good quote from SlashDot[^] : On Wednesday during the launch of its new Sonoma Centrino Mobile, Intel put on a demonstration running a video game on a laptop. It matched the performance of a high-end Pentium 4 desktop running the same game, declared Intel. The contenders were a laptop sporting a 2.13 GHz Pentium M processor, 1GB RAM, and the Alviso chipset versus a desktop with a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, 1GB RAM, and the Grantsdale chipset. Is this a testament to how far the Pentium Mobile architecture has come, or a sad comment on the clockspeed-pushing design of the Pentium 4? SlashDot[^] Here's Intel Centrino Page. Intel Centrino[^] This site will give you more than you'll really want to know. If you download at Intel's Performace Brief[^] check out page 15. Last night, after being up about 55 hours, I read something about Intel's next generation Centrino. Unfortunately I cannot login to the reseller site where I saw this (I guess even Intel's servers go down)
Thanx everyone for your comments. I guess I can go for Centrino coz I am not supposed to do any developement like stuff on my notebook. So, I guess I am tilting towards centrino a little bit... :confused: I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles
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Aamir Butt wrote: Is Centrino at 1.6GHz as fast as a normal Intel 3.2GHz Processor No they are not. They are fine for many applications, but sth. like DevStudio is sluggish. (Sometimes as in "slug slug slug sluggish")
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boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygenReally? My Centrino 1.7 laptop is alot faster than my 2.4 GHz desktops - I'd say it rivals my 3.4 GHz HT desktop. One problem may be that unless you fork out a bunch of cash for a fast laptop hard drive, your machine is going to seem sluggish. I payed the extra for a 7200 RPM drive and I was surprised how fast it is. Even DevStudio is fine. Cheers, Drew.
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Thanx everyone for your comments. I guess I can go for Centrino coz I am not supposed to do any developement like stuff on my notebook. So, I guess I am tilting towards centrino a little bit... :confused: I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles
If you prefer long batterie life, you must also look at other system parts! I had a P4 2.4Ghz Toshiba Laptop with a 14" display, 512MB, 4200rpm HardDrive and now I have the Assus W1000N with Centrino 2Ghz with a 15.4" Display 1gb, 7200rpm Harddrive The new Laptop is realy much faster.. but the battery dont last for 7 hours as said in the commercials. Its perhaps one hour longer then with the old laptop. 3-4 Hours.
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Really? My Centrino 1.7 laptop is alot faster than my 2.4 GHz desktops - I'd say it rivals my 3.4 GHz HT desktop. One problem may be that unless you fork out a bunch of cash for a fast laptop hard drive, your machine is going to seem sluggish. I payed the extra for a 7200 RPM drive and I was surprised how fast it is. Even DevStudio is fine. Cheers, Drew.
Which machine did you go for? I've not been able to find many laptops offering a 7200rpm hard drive. Systems AXIS Ltd - Software for Business ...
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Which machine did you go for? I've not been able to find many laptops offering a 7200rpm hard drive. Systems AXIS Ltd - Software for Business ...
I gave up on name-brand machines a few years ago. If you can find a good, well established shop that has a history of supplying moderate to large companies (or government bodies) then I'd go with them any day. I've got five machines here, all from our local shop[^] and the warranty service has been awesome. I got an ASUS laptop that many computer shops use as their generic brand. The whole thing cost me $2799, including software. To upgrade from a 60GB 4800 RPM drive to a 60GB 7200 RPM drive cost me a friggin' fortune last fall, but I just checked and to do it now is only an extra $100. I wanted a bigger drive than that but 60 GB was the only 7200 RPM drive they offered. The internal wireless G is great - I've heard people complain that they can't get wireless to work in some corners of their house; heck this baby works from two blocks away. I'm gettin' me a good hammock so I can work outside. Here's the laptop spec's: ASUS Z91 CHASIS NOTEBOOK W/CAMERA INTEL CENTRINO 1.7 GHZ 1024 MB DDR RAM (2*512 MBSODIMM) 60 GB 7200 RPMHD COMBO DVD/CDRW 10/100 / INTEL WIRELESS 802.11 G INTERNAL 56K V90 MODEM 6 CHANNEL SOUND MS WIN XP PROFESSIONAL LICENCE RESTORE 15 " TFT DISPLAY NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004 TARGUS CTM400 TRADEMARK NOTEPAC CARRYING CASE MICROSOFT OEM OFFICE SMALL BUSINES EDITION EN 2003 WORD,EXCEL,OUTLOOK,PUBLISHER,POWERPOINT 3 YEAR PARTS AND LABOUR 1 EXTRA NOTEBOOK BATTERY $2799.00 CAD Cheers, Drew.