TV itself and most things on the Internet are "Time Wasters" (though at least the Internet excercises your mind) and are not good for society as a whole. Next time you are at a large store (say a SuperWalmart for example), look around you and count just how many people in the store are not just overwieght but obese. I did this one day with my brother when we walked through to get some paintball stuff, and the numbers were staggering (over 100).
Our society has been plagued by TV and other "Entertainment" that feed the lazy society we have become. Go to some other countries in the world and you will be amazed when you come back to the states and see all the large people everywhere (I am not saying that all countries are better than us of course). My wife and I went to Korea for 2 weeks and when we got back to the airport in the US that is all I noticed.
People should try to entertain themselves like people did years ago in America. Sports and excercise are novel ideas that some people should try, or for the less fit - walking or hiking in a park.
There are so many wonderful things that you can do that do not change your mind into a pile of soup.
(Stepping down from soap box)
That is just my 2 cents
Actually, there is alot of confusion with the way Intel decided to name the new mobile processors. The actual processor is the Pentium M, not to be confused with any Pentium 4-M chips. The Centrino comes from the integration of this Pentium M chip, wireless Lan, and a different chip set. So it really is just the Pentium M processor, (not the Pentium 4-M that is used in moste laptops though) but through the chip set and alot of power management features the Centrino books are quite a bit faster. Some of this comes from the fact that a Centrino notebook executes more commands per clock cycle than other processors. Here is a quote from PCWorlds review of Centrino laptops:
"The new chip completes more instructions per clock cycle than today's P4 chips (which favor higher MHz instead), and the Pentium M has a 1MB Level 2 cache (twice that of the P4's 512KB L2 cache). As a result, the three 1.6-GHz test notebooks landed impressive PC WorldBench 4 scores, outpacing notebooks with faster-running P4 and P4-M processors."
Here is the Article, It is still a little confusing to me. Here is another snippet from PCMag that tries to explain the confusing names better than I could:
"For starters, Intel named the new chip the Pentium M, which is bound to be confused with the faster-clocked (but not better performing) Intel Mobile Pentium 4 Processor-M family. Worse, the Centrino moniker--the new mobile-platform brand name that Intel will be pushing in its marketing--can be used on a notebook only if the notebook contains both the Pentium M (married to one of the two new Intel chipsets) and Intel's integrated wireless networking solution, the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100."
I have a Centrino laptop (though it is not considered ultra-portable, since it weighs in at 4.7 lbs) that only cost me $1200.
And to say that the speeds of Centrino processors are relatively slow may be a bit of a stretch. A Centrino 1.4 Ghz processor can compete with P4 chips in the 2.8 Ghz range. Just check out Intels web site for a comparison.
This laptop is much faster than my Dell P4 that I bought 6 months ago.
Not sure how to compare an intel to Apple though since I don't use Apple for anything. They look great though!
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TV itself and most things on the Internet are "Time Wasters" (though at least the Internet excercises your mind) and are not good for society as a whole. Next time you are at a large store (say a SuperWalmart for example), look around you and count just how many people in the store are not just overwieght but obese. I did this one day with my brother when we walked through to get some paintball stuff, and the numbers were staggering (over 100).
Our society has been plagued by TV and other "Entertainment" that feed the lazy society we have become. Go to some other countries in the world and you will be amazed when you come back to the states and see all the large people everywhere (I am not saying that all countries are better than us of course). My wife and I went to Korea for 2 weeks and when we got back to the airport in the US that is all I noticed.
People should try to entertain themselves like people did years ago in America. Sports and excercise are novel ideas that some people should try, or for the less fit - walking or hiking in a park.
There are so many wonderful things that you can do that do not change your mind into a pile of soup.
(Stepping down from soap box)
That is just my 2 cents
Actually, there is alot of confusion with the way Intel decided to name the new mobile processors. The actual processor is the Pentium M, not to be confused with any Pentium 4-M chips. The Centrino comes from the integration of this Pentium M chip, wireless Lan, and a different chip set. So it really is just the Pentium M processor, (not the Pentium 4-M that is used in moste laptops though) but through the chip set and alot of power management features the Centrino books are quite a bit faster. Some of this comes from the fact that a Centrino notebook executes more commands per clock cycle than other processors. Here is a quote from PCWorlds review of Centrino laptops:
"The new chip completes more instructions per clock cycle than today's P4 chips (which favor higher MHz instead), and the Pentium M has a 1MB Level 2 cache (twice that of the P4's 512KB L2 cache). As a result, the three 1.6-GHz test notebooks landed impressive PC WorldBench 4 scores, outpacing notebooks with faster-running P4 and P4-M processors."
Here is the Article, It is still a little confusing to me. Here is another snippet from PCMag that tries to explain the confusing names better than I could:
"For starters, Intel named the new chip the Pentium M, which is bound to be confused with the faster-clocked (but not better performing) Intel Mobile Pentium 4 Processor-M family. Worse, the Centrino moniker--the new mobile-platform brand name that Intel will be pushing in its marketing--can be used on a notebook only if the notebook contains both the Pentium M (married to one of the two new Intel chipsets) and Intel's integrated wireless networking solution, the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100."
Well now everything is clear as mud, right!
I have a Centrino laptop (though it is not considered ultra-portable, since it weighs in at 4.7 lbs) that only cost me $1200.
And to say that the speeds of Centrino processors are relatively slow may be a bit of a stretch. A Centrino 1.4 Ghz processor can compete with P4 chips in the 2.8 Ghz range. Just check out Intels web site for a comparison.
This laptop is much faster than my Dell P4 that I bought 6 months ago.
Not sure how to compare an intel to Apple though since I don't use Apple for anything. They look great though!
For the price of this thing, why not spend a little extra money and buy a laptop with a Centrino or equivilant processor??
It's not like the "iPod Killer" will fit nicely in your pocket anyway, so why not splurge and have all the features of a ultra-mobile laptop.
My 2 cents