Pentium M

[Farvacola]

I am currently going to get an acer laptop and it will come with the pentium m 2.0 ghz. I am wondering how this stacks up against other processors mobile or not.

 

[VIAN]

The Pentium M is what the Pentium 4 should have been.

The PM blows away the P4 and Intel is purposely not releasing it in the desktop area because of that.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

if my memory serves me correctly, a 2ghz Pentium M is equal to roughly a 2.6-2.8ghz P4(desktop,not moble, if mobile,less), or 3000+ AMD64.


this is a very rough estimate.

 

[Wahsapa]

ya, m's are like the best processors intel has ever put out

 

[jdiddy]

Go for it man I have a 1.3 and a 1.4 PM Banias and I absolutely love my laptops. The 2.0 Dothan would definately be the way to go! Great performance and long battery life best of both worlds!

 

[alisajid]

The Pentium M runs fast and cool. All you can really ask of a laptop cpu. Compared to my P4 2.8 desktop, (I've got a P-M 1.7) I can't 'tell the difference' in day to day use, which is: web surfing, and compiling code.

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: VIAN
The Pentium M is what the Pentium 4 should have been.

The PM blows away the P4 and Intel is purposely not releasing it in the desktop area because of that.

Whaddya think dual-core p4's will be made with??

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Originally posted by: blakeatwork

Originally posted by: VIAN
The Pentium M is what the Pentium 4 should have been.

The PM blows away the P4 and Intel is purposely not releasing it in the desktop area because of that.

Whaddya think dual-core p4's will be made with??

prescotts, its already on the roadmap. however theres a new dual core cpu that suppose to be announced in september thats almost definatly going to be dothan or whatevers next based.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy

Originally posted by: blakeatwork

Originally posted by: VIAN
The Pentium M is what the Pentium 4 should have been.

The PM blows away the P4 and Intel is purposely not releasing it in the desktop area because of that.

Whaddya think dual-core p4's will be made with??

prescotts, its already on the roadmap. however theres a new dual core cpu that suppose to be announced in september thats almost definatly going to be dothan or whatevers next based.

Dual-core Prescotts = 2X more heat and power consumption?

 

[Wahsapa]

im willing to bet the dual core prescotts wont be nearly clocked as high as the prescotts today, if dual core prescotts are even released.... i really dont see the purpose of dual core prescotts, im hoping intel puts all its efforts in dual core m's

 

[Lyfer]

Pentium M's are intel's creme of the crop.

Pentium-M 1.5GHZ+, Wireles-G, 1gb DDR ram, 7200rpm HD, Mobile Radeon 9800 = perfect for some Doom 3/HL2/Desertcombat at 800x600 @ medium (or even higher )

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
if my memory serves me correctly, a 2ghz Pentium M is equal to roughly a 2.6-2.8ghz P4(desktop,not moble, if mobile,less), or 3000+ AMD64.


this is a very rough estimate.

An A64 3000+ is better in games then a 3.0C and worse in encoding then a 3.0C meaning it's roughly = to a 3.0C, not a 2.6 or 2.8C. Just a clarification. Also, IIRC the 2 gig m chips are easily as fast as 3 gig P4's.

 

[AnnoyedGrunt]

From what I've seen, the P-M is very close to the A64 @ equivalent clock speeds.

I think AT had a good test, but I also think they slowed the A64's a bit because they were simulating laptop use instead of desktop use.

Here's the link:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2129&p=1

After quickly looking over the results again, it looks like the P-M is slightly faster than an equivalently clocked A64 (in the laptop config, which was running DDR 333 instead of DDR 400 on the A64's).

Definitely a very nice processor, but also DAMN expensive (probably because AMD doesn't yet have good competition for the P-M, although their 90nm A64's might narrow that gap a bit)

-D'oh!