Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 14:24:22 05/06/05
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On May 06, 2005 at 13:15:46, P. Massie wrote: >On May 06, 2005 at 05:11:05, stuart taylor wrote: > >>On May 05, 2005 at 21:01:09, P. Massie wrote: >> >>>On May 05, 2005 at 17:40:23, stuart taylor wrote: >>> >>>>On May 05, 2005 at 17:35:33, Dan Andersson wrote: >>>> >>>>> What you might have missed is that the Pentium M 765 is the 'Dothan' core. The >>>>>same as the Pentium M 735 at 1.7 GHz. The P4 based notebook designs are not in >>>>>the same class. Just avoid the P4 and you'll do fine. >>>>> >>>>>MvH Dan Andersson >>>> >>>>He said (a few posts back) that the Pentium M of 1.6 or 1.7 (with 1mb of level 2 >>>>cache) is equivalent to about 2.4 in some other systems, but that the newer >>>>Centrino Dothan (with 2mb level 2 cache) is much better than that. >>>>S.Taylor >>> >>>I've done testing on some chess programs (Shredder9, Fritz8) on both the >>>original Pentium M (Banias) and the newer one (Dothan). The newer one is >>>clearly better simply because the clock speed is higher. Interestingly enough >>>(and this was a disappointment to me) the two generations of chips are pretty >>>equal clock for clock. That means if you want the fastest possible you should >>>get the 2.13ghz Dothan chip, but if you're going for a slower speed (1.7/1.8) >>>then the Banias chip (if still available) will give you equivalent performance >>>for less money. >>> >>>Paul >> >>This is incredulous! So both the Banias and Dothan are called both Pentium M and >>Centrino? (And Centrino is not really any faster!?) >>S.Taylor > >To be precise, Centrino refers to a whole family of low-power chips from Intel. >It includes the processor and entire chipset designed for low power consumption >in thin-and-light notebooks. The processor component of the Centrino family is >the Pentium M. The first version of the Pentium M was code-named Banias while >under development, while the second version was code-named Dothan. Both became >officially Pentium M's after release. There are a number of notebooks out there >using the Pentium M processor that don't use some of the other components of the >Centrino family. Intel typically does not allow these notebooks to be labelled >as "Centrino". Only notebooks using the entire Centrino package can be labelled >"Centrino". > >Paul Except for the video part that is. Ernst.
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