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Centrino Mobile Equals Desktop Pentium 4 in Speed

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Re:It should be noted, that... by StevenHenderson · · 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... :-/

  2. Re:AAAAAAAAAARERRGGGHHH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You have no clue what you are talking about. Go read some game benchmarks that monitor for CPU scaling then get back to us moron. The fact is that it depends on the game.