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Subject: Re: Pentium M

Author: Kim Roper Jensen

Date: 07:00:43 01/26/04

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On January 26, 2004 at 08:38:04, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On January 26, 2004 at 07:06:21, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>What's new on this processor ?
>>
>>A Pentium M, 1.3 Ghz runs XiniX 30% faster than a P4, 2.4 Ghz laptop ?
>>
>>Tony
>
>If that's the same as the Centrino, then yeah, it rocks. My brother's 1.3 GHz
>Centrino laptop runs chess programs about as fast (maybe slightly slower) as my
>Athlon 2 GHz. Just from my memory, I think it has a bigger cache (1MB?) and
>longer pipelines, but with much better branch prediction than the P4.

As i understood its an souped up pentium 3, with some new stuff called
codefusion.... I got a IBM t40 1.5 Ghz centrino and its quite fast :)




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