Why get a faster Intel processor in a laptop?

[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?

 

[wetcat007]

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?

This was the point of the centrino i think..

 

[ShawnD1]

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.

 

[Looney]

If you have a fast P4 in a laptop, it would get super hot almost instantly since there are no fans in a laptop.

Most of the laptops i have to deal with have fans.

 

[LikeLinus]

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?

My Dell Insprion laptop has a fan?

 

[Ionizer86]

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).

 

[Jumpem]

Alienware has laptops with the 3.2GHz P4.

 

[dexvx]

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.

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.

 

[Pandaren]

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.

 

[Abhi]

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.

Most laptops have fans these days. At least dells i have come across do ...

 

[peterskm]

HPs and Compaqs have fans, too.

 

[Jeff7]

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.

 

[Macro2]

Be glad they throttle down, otherwise something in your pants may get burned....<G>

 

[JBT]

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.

 

[bobbyjosh]

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

 

[vegetation]

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.