Pentium-M (Centrino) or P4 for laptop?

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Originally posted by munchy1988
would the centrino be good for a laptop gaming platform? (not full gaming, just on trips when im bored and i feel like playing some games). or would the P4 be better for that? is the centrino mainly for buisness apps like excel and stuff?

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All in all, the p-m (centrino) is much better than a p4 in all tasks, even gaming.

Centrino came about because they already had a P4-M and a P4 and Intel was so stuck on the mhz is more deal vs AMD that they needed a new marketing catch phrase ("Centrino" in this case) to make it obvious that these chips should not be compared to the other chips Intel produces on a mhz to mhz basis.

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Originally posted by kpxgq
i would personally not buy anything but a penitum-M (centrino) equipped laptop simply due to battery life

my dad has a 2.4ghz p4 inspiron laptop and it barely gets over 3 hours doing menial tasks... my sister has an hp with a amd xp2000 and that barely gets over 2 hours...

i have seen some pentium-M laptops get over 5 hours of use... its simply no contest unless you love lugging around extra batteries and ac adapter

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I've used my g/f's IBM centrino laptop.
When just surfing the web and using MS Word, the laptop lasted over 8hrs. I was VERY impressed.

P4 is better in peformance
M is good for mobile computing
Battery life for M is about 6 hours
For my Toshiba P4 is only 2 hours

But for performance I would go for P4 as M has roots in celeron.

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Originally posted by hardMan
P4 is better in peformance
M is good for mobile computing
Battery life for M is about 6 hours
For my Toshiba P4 is only 2 hours

But for performance I would go for P4 as M has roots in celeron.

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Pentium M does not have its results in Celeron at all, as already stated.

P-M is higher performance clock for clock, but is not as good a performer as the current highest end chips. IIRC, the P-M 1.6 falls slightly higher in the performance charts than a 2.4B.

I bet the new Dothan 2Ghz w/ 2MB L2 kicks major ***. Too bad it's so damn expensive!