[plug] Notebooks

[Ben Jensz]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
>
But if you're buying a new laptop, your choices are like a P4-M of 
anywhere from 2.4Ghz through to 3Ghz, whereas the P-M are only just up 
to 2Ghz (and you can get the ULV 1Ghz ones as well)... so with current 
laptops, there is no clock to clock comparison, as the P4-M is clocked 
faster.  The other thing is that the P4-M laptops are usually heavier 
and I'd guess probably run hotter as well.....

If I was buying now for myself, I'd be buying a P-M based laptop without 
a doubt.


/ Ben