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Subject: Re: centrino performance?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 05:46:45 06/19/03

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On June 19, 2003 at 05:10:25, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On June 19, 2003 at 03:55:49, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>i was just reading this computer magazine which says that the new pentium M
>>(also sold as "centrino" together with other components) is very fast compared
>>to older notebooks. does anybody have data on this (e.g. crafty benchmarks)?
>>
>>cheers
>>  martin
>
>From what I've seen so far a Centrino cpu is a Pentium 3 with 1mb of L2 cache.
>The extra L2 makes no difference for chess, though.

if this is true, how come pichard's 1.3GHz centrino runs ruffian faster than my
2.4GHz P4?

cheers
  martin



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