Pentium-M Notebook Put To The Test

BedivereW writes "Tom's Hardware has an interesting review of the first Intel Pentium-M (codenamed Banias) notebook. There are a few pieces of information missing, like heat production, but on the whole it is a good review. Intel appears to be moving in the correct direction." I'm looking forward to seeing more info on this one - seems to be the x86 response to the PowerBook series.

Comments

Dumb names...

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't calling it "Pentium-M" make it seem like a mobile version of the first Pentium?

Re:Dumb names...

[Anonymous Coward]

Pentium-I
Pentium-II
Pentium-III
Pentium-IV ...

I wasn't expecting Pentium-M before a thousand years.

What a crock

[cscx]

I assume you also refuse to own a PDA because it's not "open hardware" either, and you can't buy off the shelf parts to build one yourself?

Notebooks aren't meant to be "open compatible hardware." It's in the name: notebook. I assume you know what a notebook is. Two characteristics of a notebook are "small" and "light."

Is your solution to attach casters to the bottom of your tower case and tow it behind you with a leash? Maybe for you, but I think that's fucking retarded. Notebooks like this exist for the sole purpose of portability -- they fit in my bookbag. That's what notebook computers are for. I couldn't give a shit what kind of closed, top-secret, nuclear-powered hardware is inside, as long as 1) it's light 2) it fits in my bag with ease 3) it's sturdy 4) it does exactly what it's supposed to.

This isn't a liquid cooled heavily modded desktop we're talking about here. It's a friggin notebook. It's supposed to be small. Flame on.

Re:Wouldn't this reduce compatability?

[danamania]

do I have the product for YOU.

All the features of a desktop in a radical new form factor :)

Re:Sellouts

[cioxx]

Apple gave top of the line notebooks to Hemos, Malda, Michael, and a couple other Slashdot "editors". The "editors" took the gift notebooks with one hand, and put on kneepads with the other.

Hey, don't give anyone ideas. Next thing you know, Microsoft will ship out 4 licenses for WindowsXP Home edition to the /. editors, and it'll all be over.

Re:Wouldn't this reduce compatability?

[PCM2]

This sounds a little odd. Combining cpu and lan and some other things all on the one chip. It's suspiciously like lock-in

Dude, you think that's something? Why, in Communist China...

...aww, screw it. People have been buying computers with built-in Ethernet cards for years, and some of them are integrated on the motherboard. Good lord -- is that metallic noise I hear the entire world grinding to a halt?

Slip-up or intentional?

[Andy Dodd]

"The 855PM (Odem) is meant to be the link to a dedicated GPU via an AGP 4x port, while 855GM (Montata-GM) comes with Intel's own integrated 3D-decellerator."

Did Tom's Hardware slip up and accidentally let their opinion of the 855GM's graphics out, or did they intentionally say this?

I'm thinking they slippped up in letting their opinion out, since it's accelerator/decelerator. (One L, not two.)

Either way, I'm not surprised, as Intel's integrated graphics solutions always have (and probably always will) suck.

Intel execs breath a sigh of relief

[geekoid]

Intel execs have been reading slashdot in hope to hear good news, there wait was not in vain.

BedivereW wrote "...Intel appears to be moving in the correct direction."

One intel execs was heard saying "thank God BedivereW likes where we are going, I have no idea how we would have survived if he didn't"