Pentium M vs Pentium 4

[radiosity]

I'm having to replaceme my laptop and the insurance company wants to give me a PM 730 1.6 vs my P4 3.2 800 FSB. Help I forgot that I use this for my CAD and Photoshop scenes.

 

[jonesthewine]

The P4M will consume much less power, resulting in enhanced battery life. IIRC, they are more efficient...more work per clock cycle.

I have aP4M in my lappy, also 1.6Ghz, and it runs things fairly snappily. How fast do you want Word and Excel to run anyway?

 

[Shadow Conception]

For performance, P4 would be ideal, for battery life, you'd go with the PM.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: jonesthewine
The P4M will consume much less power, resulting in enhanced battery life. IIRC, they are more efficient...more work per clock cycle.

I have aP4M in my lappy, also 1.6Ghz, and it runs things fairly snappily. How fast do you want Word and Excel to run anyway?

P4M would be the Pentium 4 Mobile. I think you mean PM (Pentium M).

That Pentium M will underperform that Pentium 4, though not by a lot. It will score a big win on battery life.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Aluvus

Originally posted by: jonesthewine
The P4M will consume much less power, resulting in enhanced battery life. IIRC, they are more efficient...more work per clock cycle.

I have aP4M in my lappy, also 1.6Ghz, and it runs things fairly snappily. How fast do you want Word and Excel to run anyway?

P4M would be the Pentium 4 Mobile. I think you mean PM (Pentium M).

That Pentium M will underperform that Pentium 4, though not by a lot. It will score a big win on battery life.

as well as heat output.

 

[Skeeedunt]

P4 in laptop = bad

 

[stevty2889]

The lack of hyperthreading the P4 has will definatly hurt your CAD and photoshop performance, but over all, the performance of a 1.6ghz pentium-m is similar to a 3-3.2ghz P4, while running much cooler and giving better battery life.

 

[vegetation]

P4's for laptops have been phased out for a while now, and for good reason. Pentium M or even celeron M's all have much better battery life, run cooler, and are not that much slower than their P4 counterparts.

 

[Pens1566]

PM > P4 in a lappy.

 

[acegazda]

Usually, when the company puts a desktop porcessor in a laptop, the laptop is too heavy and thick. Anyone know anything about the turion processors and how they stack up against the core duos and centrinos? Is it the same deal with the current gen desktop processors for gaming? (AMD athlon 64>Intel Pentium D)

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: acegazda
Usually, when the company puts a desktop porcessor in a laptop, the laptop is too heavy and thick. Anyone know anything about the turion processors and how they stack up against the core duos and centrinos? Is it the same deal with the current gen desktop processors for gaming? (AMD athlon 64>Intel Pentium D)

Core and Core duo slaughter the A64 in gaming.

The pentium-m matches it more or less.

 

[acegazda]

thanks, why is that?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: acegazda
thanks, why is that?

It does more work per clock, the core2 will extend the lead, unfortunately...

Im hoping AMD has some kind of trick up their sleeve they can get out before intel starts charging insane prices for processors again.