From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 00:01:08 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 848 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 30 April 2004 Number 848 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: ot: wlan hotspots ? : David Forrester" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:41:48 +1000 (EST) From: "David Forrester" Subject: Re: ot: wlan hotspots ? On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:24:40 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote: > > >Kris Steenhaut wrote: > >> Ed Durrant wrote: >> >> > >> >You're not mixing up Centrino and Celeron are you ? >> > >> > >> > >> No, I'm not. >> >> Centrino is the new (not so new anymore) CPU concieved for laptops. >> Commercials say an 1.4 Ghz centrino is quicker as a "regular" 2.2 Ghz >> processor. >> For once commercials are telling about the truth. Even VPC works nearly >> as good as on my main AMD-3.0 Ghz computer. >> > >Ok thanks for the clarification - is it possible that the Centrino is sometimes also >referred to as the "mobile pentium" or it that a different processor again ? > Ed, Kris is wrong. Centrino is the complete mobile package. To get a Centrino sticker, a notebook has to have certain Intel components: a Pentium M processor, an Intel 855 chipset, and Intel wireless network card. If it doesn't have all three, it can't carry the label. has a good summary of what's going on. Performance wise, the Pentium M is better that desktop CPUs at the same clockspeed. Kris' comparison matches what I've seen in reviews. It's designed as a mobile CPU, rather than as a modified desktop CPU (the Pentium 4-M or whatever it was called). It also has a 1MiB of level 2 cache, which is double what the desktops had when the Pentium M was first releases. The level 1 cache is also bigger, but, I've forgotten the details. -- David Forrester davidfor at internode.on dot net http://www.os2world dot com/djfos2/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------