[plug] Notebooks

[Adam Ashley]

working on a centrino atm, while yes its raw performance is less than a
p4m, the extra battery drain the p4m has isnt worth it. I use my laptop
as my primary working platform I make use of the cpu speedstepping. I
use the speedfreq daemon in dynamic mode and frankly 90% of the time it
sits at the lowest speed setting which is 600MHz (its a 1.5ghz pentium
M).

The wireless works perfectly using ndiswrapper
(http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/). the proper intel drivers are under
development, they tend to drop connections and restart their fireware a
bit much to be really useable atm but they are promising.

The best bit on the centrino is the 5+hr battery life on my little 1.4kg
laptop :)

Adam

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 23:07 +0800, Ben Jensz wrote:
> Centrino has integrated wireless.. heard conflicting reports about 
> compatibility with Linux.... but they are also Pentium-M based so they 
> are slower, but what you lose in power you gain in battery life.  Most 
> of the Centrino or just plain P-M laptops last 2 or even 3 times as long 
> on battery than the power hungry P4-M based laptops though.  So it 
> depends what you want in a laptop as to which you get...
> 
> 
> / Ben
> 
> 
> Craig Dyke wrote:
> 
> > Hopefully a quick question.
> >
> > Is there any reason, linux or other operating system, why one should 
> > choose
> > a Centrino over a P4 notebook?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> 
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