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Why get a faster Intel processor in a laptop?

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ShawnD1

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To properly cool a 3ghz P4 you need serious air flow or else Intel processors throttle down a lot when they get too hot.
If you have a fast P4 in a laptop, it would get super hot almost instantly since there are no fans in a laptop.

If the processor just ends up throttling down anyway, what's the point of having a faster processor?
 
Originally posted by: ShawnD1
To properly cool a 3ghz P4 you need serious air flow or else Intel processors throttle down a lot when they get too hot.
If you have a fast P4 in a laptop, it would get super hot almost instantly since there are no fans in a laptop.

If the processor just ends up throttling down anyway, what's the point of having a faster processor?
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This was the point of the centrino i think..
 
Is the centrino super cool or slower or what? I don't follow laptops too much, I'm just getting interested now because I'm considering buying one.
 
Originally posted by: ShawnD1
To properly cool a 3ghz P4 you need serious air flow or else Intel processors throttle down a lot when they get too hot.
If you have a fast P4 in a laptop, it would get super hot almost instantly since there are no fans in a laptop.

If the processor just ends up throttling down anyway, what's the point of having a faster processor?
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My Dell Insprion laptop has a fan?
 
Centrino was a high performance low power combo that's specifically designed for mobile use. Some Pentium M laptops get 6+ hrs of battery life. The chips are fast too. a 1.6GHz Pentium-M does about as well or better than a P4-M 2.4GHz usually (unless the benchmark requires something specific to the netburst architecture).
 
Originally posted by: ShawnD1

To properly cool a 3ghz P4 you need serious air flow or else Intel processors throttle down a lot when they get too hot.
If you have a fast P4 in a laptop, it would get super hot almost instantly since there are no fans in a laptop.
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A laptop without a fan is like a car without wheels.

I dare you to name 1 modern laptop without a fan. Part of the cost of the laptop from OEM's is the design of the cooling system, which is much more intricate than desktop designs.
 
Most if not all modern notebook computer designs have fans. Even the Pentium M/Centrino notebooks all have fans, although these are smaller and much quieter than the fans in Pentium 4 notebooks.

Some people (I am not one of them) like having the fastest CPU possible in a fully integrated and somewhat portable machine (7.5-10 lbs). For these folks, getting the faster CPU makes sense.
 
Originally posted by: ShawnD1
If you have a fast P4 in a laptop, it would get super hot almost instantly since there are no fans in a laptop.
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Most laptops have fans these days. At least dells i have come across do ...

 
I worked on a Compaq Armada 1700 - Pentium II 233 with 32MB of RAM. Not exactly state-of-the-art. It had a fan. The laptop I've got right now has 2 variable speed fans - one on the back, probably for video/chipset cooling, and one that exhausts out the side, to cool the CPU.
 
my centrino 1.3 has a fan it comes on everyonce in awhlie if im playing a game or doing something else intensive and on start up only ever for a few seconds to clear the hot air out. I have no idea where the processor is actually located cause the only part that gets a little warm is the left palm rest where the 5400 RPM HDD lies below.
 
Most laptops I have worked with have fans...

The dells, compaqs and panasonic ones at work do

and my 2.533GHz sager laptop has dual fans
 
I had an Acer ultra portable laptop with a p3-450 chip and it didn't have a fan.. Got really,really, hot at times but never once crashed.
 
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