Centrino Mobile Equals Desktop Pentium 4 in Speed

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 22, 2005 @02:19AM from the six-on-one-hand dept.

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?"

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Re:It should be noted, that... by StevenHenderson · 2005-01-22 02:43 · Score: 0, Troll

Intel must have not been using a laptop with "Intel Integrated Extreme Graphics", because otherwise it would have been far outclassed by any PC with a decent Radeon 9200 or equivalent. A nice clockspeed means nothing if your video card isn't up to snuff.
But...wait...they have "Extreme" in the product title! Doesn't that mean it is crazy fast? I mean, they wouldn't possibly put that word in to insult the "Mountain Dew generation" that is us... :-/