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Northwood Notebook with Mobility Radeon 7500

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Daovonnaex

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I found this while looking at the mobility radeon 7500 offerings at ATi's site. Only Dell and Eurocom had them. I checked out Eurocom, and it turns out that it has the the Northwood P4 as well. This will probably disappear as the P4-M appears. Hence, it should be snapped up ASAP. It even has DDR SDRAM instead of SDRAM. This should be a fantastic notebook if you don't mind short battery life. All I can say is, I'm getting one!

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Hmmm, correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't this the thing that Intel warned about some time ago? Companies using desktop processors in laptops? Or is this really the mobile P4?
 
Actually, that's not too bad. The prices listed are Canadian. The base configuration with a 2.2GHz Northwood is under $2300US. Battery life probably does stink, but you can add a second battery into one of the drive bays which should result in pretty decent total battery life. Should certainly beat the pants off of any other laptop out there perfromance wise.
 


<< Hmmm, correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't this the thing that Intel warned about some time ago? Companies using desktop processors in laptops? Or is this really the mobile P4? >>

It's the desktop processor, fortunately. The P4-M is a Willamette core, meaning fewer cache, less scalability.
 
Toshiba offers a 1.6Ghz Northwood processor in a laptop. This is, in fact, what prompted Intel's statement regarding desktop-laptops. The best laptop in existance, the Toshiba Satellite 5005-S507 is in fact a desktop PIII 1.1Ghz CPU (GeForce4 Go and a touchpad! w00t!)... In fact.

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<< The P4-M is a Willamette core, meaning fewer cache, less scalability >>

NO. The P4-M is identical the the Desktop Northwood.
 


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<< The P4-M is a Willamette core, meaning fewer cache, less scalability >>

NO. The P4-M is identical the the Desktop Northwood. >>



Your correct in that the P4-M is based on the Northwood core, but it will reportedly run at a lower voltage then the desktop P4 and will support Intel's SpeedStep which the desktop variant does not. Hopefully an improved version of SpeedStep as AMD's PowerNow is a vastly superior technology in many ways.
The P4 based Celeron will be using the older Willamette core however, with half the L2 cache... though supposedly the associatively remains the same as with the regular Willamette.
 
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