[plug] Notebooks

[Craig Ringer]

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

Compared to a P4 of what clock speed? Clock-for-clock the Pentium M is 
in my experience _much_ faster than the P4 or P4M. It's also possible to 
use them as laptops not giant-heatsink-on-heat-insulating-pad-on-lap-tops.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that many of the P4 'desknotes' with 
desktop P4 chips in them outperformed the Pentium-M based machines by a 
lot. The P4m probably does in the high-clocked versions, too, but the 
lower clocked P4m and all Celery chips should probably be outperformed 
by the Pentium M.

Of course, that's only judging by about 6 laptops I've worked with, some 
briefly, so it's far from hard evidence of anything.

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Craig Ringer