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Centrino Mobile Equals Desktop Pentium 4 in Speed
Spy Handler writes "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?"
maybe they were using intels graphic chips too? that would explain it.
also. what kind of idiot they got in marketing? the whole comparision is just saying "look, our top of the line desktop chip is shit for gaming!"(not totally true even).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
that your mature, fast chip that people have been designing for for the better part of a decade combined with spanking new memory and hardware works well! my god, it boggles the mind! carl not like that's stopping me from representin with a wack AMD64 chip and gear that makes the inside of my tower a good substitute for a microwave oven(tea, anyone?))
I guess Centrino beats P4 in speed of falling off the desk as well.
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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?
Yes.
The sad thing is, they were testing using Solitare.
Bah. I have a 10 pound laptop, plus accessories, an external drive and a leather case, the whole package comes out to around 18 pounds; HT'd 3.0 P4m or whatever runs games okay; it's just when you need to do anything that involves shuffling a lot of memory around that you notice how goddamn slow laptops are. I proudly walk a mile to work each day with that thing slung over my shoulder. You'll never hear me complain about laptop weight.
...cos I'm too busy complaining about perpetually sore shoulders. I sleep terribly at night, and just yesterday I pulled a calf muscle crossing the street.
But it's all worth it when I ask some sucker to "hold my bag for a sec". Nerddom has its price.
3.6 GHz is more speed than 2.13 GHz!
It's like saying a G5 2.5 GHz is faster than a P4 3.6 GHz, psttt!
Intel said it, not me.
Or maybe they left VSync on!