Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 06:46:00 08/31/03
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On August 31, 2003 at 03:22:52, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >Hi all, > >When looking at the notebook market, I see more and more >systems with the Intel Centrino processor. Ranging from >1,3 GHz to 1,7 GHz. Up till now nobody could tell me the >difference in speed between the Centrino and the 'regular' >P4, or the AMD 2700 and up. > >One salesman told me that the 1,3 GHz Centrino is comparable >to the P4 2,4 GHz. Does anybody know more about this? How >good is the 1,7 GHz Centrino? Do we have some Fritz marks >on these new guys? Are they good for chess programs? > >Thanks for your comments! > >Best wishes, Jeroen I have a 1.3 Ghz centrino laptop. I reported here on CCC roughly 1 million NPS running Ruffian. Someone else with a PIV reported that this was equivalent to a 2.4 Ghz PIV, so the salesman's assessment is in agreement. With different applications, this rough equivalency can be expected to vary of course.
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