supervad33
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I was looking into buy a top of the line laptop but their is so many different versions of processor help me please
The best processor for a laptop
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amd all the way. even though centrinos are considered good laptop processors, they are friggin' terrible. 
IMO i would rather charge the battery and get much better performance.
but yeah, compaq sells a really, really nice laptop for a very affordable price that has an AMD 64 for like 75 extra bucks...quite nice i must say. 64mb video card for like 50 bucks more, great for mobile gaming.
IMO i would rather charge the battery and get much better performance.but yeah, compaq sells a really, really nice laptop for a very affordable price that has an AMD 64 for like 75 extra bucks...quite nice i must say. 64mb video card for like 50 bucks more, great for mobile gaming.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...ooks/compaq_presario&storeName=computer_store
r300z persario.
I was suprised to see an AMD64 in it too. i built a nice comp for like 1300 bucks.
r300z persario.
I was suprised to see an AMD64 in it too. i built a nice comp for like 1300 bucks.
I just reread this .... what makes you say that? Centrinos were designed specifically for mobile platforms while the "full" processors were adapted.
P4M
- 8KB + 12words L1
- 512K L2 (256K for Celeron version -- more than the desktop Celeron)
- 400MHz FSB
- Enhanced speedstep (2nd generation)
- L2 cache latency: 7 cycles
Centrino
- 64KB L1
- 1024K L2
- 400MHz FSB
- Enhanced speedstep (3rd generation)
- L2 cache latency: 5 cycles
On paper the Centrino gives the P4M a serious licking (obviously there's no need to talk about the P4EE adapted for mobile platforms). Even in practise, the Centrino will crush similarly clocked (as well as much higher clocked) P4M chips. Why? The P4M is/was adapted from the Northwood which made use of the Netburst architecture ... as we see all the time in discussions of AMD/Intel strategies is that for the Netburst to be effective two conditions must exist (1) the CPUs must be highly clocked and (2) there needs to be software optimizations such as HT. Naturally we cant have these two features on standard mobile platforms due to battery constraints. Thus the P4M is actually at quite a disadvantage as it's 20 stage pipeline is actually a negative point against the chip's performance (because of the lack of high clock speeds)
Cheers.
nice post praetor, yes to say that Centrino's are friggen terrible is a terrible statement in itself, it is the first true breakthrough mobile processor that intel has developed, my modest 1.6 GHz pentium m combined with a radeon 9700 will compete if not beat most laptop setups while maintaining 4+ hours... thats efficiency
TUMMYPONY86
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Processor speeds?
What is the advantage fo geting a Intel® Pentium® M Processor 755 (2.0GHz) instead of a Intel® Pentium® M Processor 705(1.5GHz), in a Notebook computer?
The cost of the 2.0 GHZ is almost twice the cost of the1.5GHZ processor.
What is the advantage fo geting a Intel® Pentium® M Processor 755 (2.0GHz) instead of a Intel® Pentium® M Processor 705(1.5GHz), in a Notebook computer?
The cost of the 2.0 GHZ is almost twice the cost of the1.5GHZ processor.