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HOT Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook $499 w/free ship

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rasputinj

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Dell Home has a smokin HOT Deal a special config Inspiron 6000

loaded with
Celeron® M 370 (1.50 GHz/1MB Cache/400MHz FSB) , 256mb, 15.4" , 40GB, DVD , XP Home, 90 day warr

for the $999 -$500 discount = $499 with free ship

I do not think it will last long so act fast.
 
http://www.overclockers.com/tips1204/

Just get this instead of a Pentium M/Centrino .. and overclock it back to a Pentium M.

I'm a newbie on Anandtech Forums, but not a Newbie by hardware and software standards 🙂 I got a Inspiron 6000 for my mate and the Celeron M is just a hardware neutered Pentium M. You can re-enable it back to a Pentium M, albeit with 1MB L2 instead of 2MB. This is probably why they are Celeron M's, because 2MB of L2 is pretty huge and there was a probably a defect somewhere in that cache silicon.

Anyhow, the old Pentium M's (Banias) were 1MB L2, so 1MB is plenty... although by now the yields for Intel should be better.. I know a few people working on getting a hardware removal of that laser etch that takes out the extra 1MB L2.. we'll see how it goes!
 
Originally posted by: mwabad22
You can re-enable it back to a Pentium M, albeit with 1MB L2 instead of 2MB.
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The other difference, besides less cache, is that the Celeron M doesn't support EIST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep) like the Pentium M. Changing the FSB doesn't enable EIST.

Dell ships a power management driver to make up for that. Some other manufacturers do and some don't.

http://support.intel.com/support/processors/mobile/pm/sb/CS-007967.htm
 
Originally posted by: pxc
Originally posted by: mwabad22
You can re-enable it back to a Pentium M, albeit with 1MB L2 instead of 2MB.
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The other difference, besides less cache, is that the Celeron M doesn't support EIST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep) like the Pentium M. Changing the FSB doesn't enable EIST.

Dell ships a power management driver to make up for that. Some other manufacturers do and some don't.

http://support.intel.com/support/processors/mobile/pm/sb/CS-007967.htm
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I believe (IIRC) that EIST is taken cared of in the chipset, in conjunction with the CPU. Sort of like the i865PE/i875P deal 2 years back where "PAT" was the newest and coolest memory optimization technology from Intel, and only available on the ridiculously priced i875P. Turned out the cheaper i865PE also supports PAT intrinsically, as they are really slightly mutilated i875P's. A lot of the great Intel boards of the last few years for FPGA-478 were i865PE boards and not i875P's. Those screwy mobo manufacturers figured out how to turn PAT on 🙂 But yah, it should be a BIOS-level hack; I'm sure modded BIOSes will come out soon enough if there are problems. But last time I checked Dell, Toshiba, and IBM have great runtime enhancement utilities.

Correct me about the EIST is I'm wrong.. were you able to confirm that it's physically taken etched out of the Celeron M package when it was modified from a Pentium M? It seems to me that the BIOS should be reading CPU ID strings, an enabling the "confirmed" settings.
 
i've already received the confirmation and acknowledgement emails, but i'm going to guess this "deal" has a 70% chance of all orders getting cancelled.
 
Originally posted by: mwabad22
Correct me about the EIST is I'm wrong.. were you able to confirm that it's physically taken etched out of the Celeron M package when it was modified from a Pentium M? It seems to me that the BIOS should be reading CPU ID strings, an enabling the "confirmed" settings.
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The name string doesn't control CPU features. Those are locked at the factory by Intel.

The chipset will dynamically switch voltage and multiplier if the CPU supports it. The Celeron M doesn't. I have never seen anything to the contrary, either. See Intel's product page I linked above or the datasheet on the second tab. The Celeron M doesn't support EIST.
 
Originally posted by: pxc
but i'm going to guess this "deal" has a 70% chance of all orders getting cancelled.
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Why would you say that? This looked like a legit deal.
 
Darn - didn't realize this would go that quickly. Emailed the deal to a friend who is looking for a cheap laptop. Hope she got in on it. Thanks anyway OP!
 
damn...almost wish i got one, i know someone i could sell it to for a small profit
as a side note..would this one have a pcie slot that you could upgrade by throwing an x300 in or something?...just curious
 
Originally posted by: Banana
Why would you say that? This looked like a legit deal.
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It looked like a price mistake. The e-value code is the same base listed in the coupons: 11111-i6000A1, a $999 base model.

On the plus side, my order is in production. If it doesn't move in a day, it's likely to be cancelled.
 
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