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?"

Comments

What's the difference?

[Dancin_Santa]

Centrino is a chipset that includes a wifi device. If your home PC was equipped with a wifi card and the system ran some game the same with or without it, would it really be news?

How about if we could get Intel to provide some real drivers for Linux? The joke goes, Does it run Linux? but in this case, goddamn, I wish it did.

Laptops have other challenges

[Gothmolly]

slow HD, UMA video, short on RAM or slow RAM... any of these things could limit video playback. Who needs a 3 GHz CPU to just watch a video???