Is Centrino basically wireless ?

[isekii]

What other differences is it besides the wireless?

I read the intel site, about increased battery life etc..

Is it that much of a diff from a PIV-M ?

 

[Goosemaster]

It's the combination of a p-m and integrated wireless in a laptop.





that's it.

fast as hell.

EDITED: SOrry

 

[Viper GTS]

http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800

Read up.

And yes, it is VERY different from the PIV-M.

Viper GTS

 

[isekii]

so if i add a mini pci on my dell would it be somewhat like a centrino ?

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: isekii
so if i add a mini pci on my dell would it be somewhat like a centrino ?

No.

The wireless portion really isn't all that special, it's the CPU that makes Centrino what it is.

Viper GTS

 

[BornStar]

Originally posted by: isekii
so if i add a mini pci on my dell would it be somewhat like a centrino ?

You have to have the combination of the Pentium M (not the P4-M), whatever the heck chipset that runs on, and an Intel wireless card for it to be a Centrino. If you choose say a Dell wireless card, it's no longer a Centrino, but who really cares about the wireless card?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800

Read up.

And yes, it is VERY different from the PIV-M.

Viper GTS

fixed it

 

[Vette73]

Centrino is a supped up P3 on a 400Mhz P4 bus for the most part. They are having problems really moving them as Intel has all their ad's saying MHZ matter... to fight amd then they come out with this chip that runs even slower then a Athlon.

 

[Confused]

Centrino is a combination of all the following:
Pentium-M processor
Intel 855 chipset
Intel 802.11b wireless adapter

If any of those are not there, then it cannot use the Centrino name.


Confused

 

[isekii]

icic

oh well atleast my 1.6ghz PIV-M is faster than a 2.66 PIV laptop

http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800&p=14[/L[/L]

Integer applications are very branch intensive and thus the Pentium-M's shorter pipeline and well balanced branch predictor (balanced for the architecture) give the 1.6GHz Pentium-M the title of the fastest mobile processor in Business Winstone 2002. Not only can the Pentium-M outperform the fastest Pentium 4, but it also comes out ahead of the 2.66GHz Pentium 4, even despite its higher speed FSB (533MHz vs. 400MHz).

 

[BornStar]

Originally posted by: isekii
icic

oh well atleast my 1.6ghz PIV-M is faster than a 2.66 PIV laptop

http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800&p=14[/L[/L]

Integer applications are very branch intensive and thus the Pentium-M's shorter pipeline and well balanced branch predictor (balanced for the architecture) give the 1.6GHz Pentium-M the title of the fastest mobile processor in Business Winstone 2002. Not only can the Pentium-M outperform the fastest Pentium 4, but it also comes out ahead of the 2.66GHz Pentium 4, even despite its higher speed FSB (533MHz vs. 400MHz).

It's not a PIV-M, its only a P-M. That loss of a number makes a huge difference.

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: isekii
icic

oh well atleast my 1.6ghz PIV-M is faster than a 2.66 PIV laptop

http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800&p=14[/L[/L]

Integer applications are very branch intensive and thus the Pentium-M's shorter pipeline and well balanced branch predictor (balanced for the architecture) give the 1.6GHz Pentium-M the title of the fastest mobile processor in Business Winstone 2002. Not only can the Pentium-M outperform the fastest Pentium 4, but it also comes out ahead of the 2.66GHz Pentium 4, even despite its higher speed FSB (533MHz vs. 400MHz).

It is NOT PIV-M or P4-M or P4M, just P-M or Pentium-M...


Cheers :beer:


Confused

 

[Rob9874]

Not to mention 1MB of L2 cache.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Confused

Originally posted by: isekii
icic

oh well atleast my 1.6ghz PIV-M is faster than a 2.66 PIV laptop

http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800&p=14[/L[/L]

Integer applications are very branch intensive and thus the Pentium-M's shorter pipeline and well balanced branch predictor (balanced for the architecture) give the 1.6GHz Pentium-M the title of the fastest mobile processor in Business Winstone 2002. Not only can the Pentium-M outperform the fastest Pentium 4, but it also comes out ahead of the 2.66GHz Pentium 4, even despite its higher speed FSB (533MHz vs. 400MHz).

It is NOT PIV-M or P4-M or P4M, just P-M or Pentium-M...


Cheers :beer:


Confused

There is a P4 Mobile as well, (which it sounds like he has). That is NOT Centrino though, & the 2.66 P4 would kick it's ass.

Viper GTS

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Confused

Originally posted by: isekii
icic

oh well atleast my 1.6ghz PIV-M is faster than a 2.66 PIV laptop

http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800&p=14[/L[/L]

Integer applications are very branch intensive and thus the Pentium-M's shorter pipeline and well balanced branch predictor (balanced for the architecture) give the 1.6GHz Pentium-M the title of the fastest mobile processor in Business Winstone 2002. Not only can the Pentium-M outperform the fastest Pentium 4, but it also comes out ahead of the 2.66GHz Pentium 4, even despite its higher speed FSB (533MHz vs. 400MHz).

It is NOT PIV-M or P4-M or P4M, just P-M or Pentium-M...


Cheers :beer:


Confused

There is a P4 Mobile as well, (which it sounds like he has). That is NOT Centrino though, & the 2.66 P4 would kick it's ass.

Viper GTS

Yeah...i know there's a P4-M (i'm typing on one now ) but he is mixing up P-M with P4/P4-M


Confused

 

[Gunbuster]

Centrino = marketing platform

Its like an Intel value meal, burger, fries, coke.

 

[Rob9874]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
Centrino = marketing platform

Its like an Intel value meal, burger, fries, coke.

Yes, and no. I work for Intel, but I have a somewhat objectve viewpoint. Intel recently gave all employees $1000 vouchers to Dell. I bought a laptop. Although I felt obligated to get Centrino, we instead opted for the Dell wireless card and router, because it's 802.11g, and the Intel card is just B. Without the Intel branded card, I don't get the Centrino sticker. Big whoop. That part is just marketing. I have a better system with the G card.

But the CPU and chipset is more than hype. There is a benefit to performance and battery life. Not to mention weight of the laptop. Most Centrino laptops are lighter than others.

 

[RossMAN]

I think to the average consumer it's all just marketing hype but there are some benefits to a Centrino laptop.

I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 600m and have been quite impressed with it but I have sold it because it's going to a deserving college student who will get a lot more use out of it than I would.

It weighs less than 5 pounds with a 14.1" SXGA display, and battery life is around 3.5 hours playing a DVD twice with WiFi off.

My next laptop will hopefully be a Centrino based laptop or something similiar.

I actually don't care for any of the Centrino WiFi options because none of them are compatble with Netstumbler however our Dell TrueMobile 1150 is (it's also Linux friendly IIRC).