For those waiting for dual core Pentium M

Here's a test....
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2627&p=1

Looks like it'll be a mighty fine chip to have in a 5720 case.... or preferably even a nicer case by then. I hope these turn up in Jan/Feb.

bigtrouble, you've missed the point of the review.

The dual Athlons and the dual Pentiums are not competitors to the dual core Pentium M's. Just because Clevo likes to shoehorn desktop hardware into laptop cases doesn't make them viable alternatives to dedicated laptop hardware such as the Pentium M. The difference is made none too clear by the 5720 vs the clevo clambake 9000 series machines. The next Pentium M, called the Yonah, is the CPU that people are interested in for laptops.

The useful information from Anand's article is that, as expected, the dual core Yonah Pentium M offers a very nice speed bump over the single core Dothan Pentium M... at the same power requirements, same die size and in all likelihood the same price bracket too. Anand has pitted it against the desktop dual cores just for general CPU interest's sake... not as items competing for the same market.

The great thing about the Yonah is that it is pretty much able to be used everywhere were currently the Dothan is being used (and Athlons only dream of going). That means pretty much any notebook of any size. I'm looking forward to a Sager 5720 or Dell XPS equivalent laptop by February with a worthwhile speedbump over the current Dothan for what will be much the same price. The Dothan has seen very little improvement in over a year now and this is the next big step for it.

AMD intend to have a competitor out by the end of the year, but that is only as exciting as the Turion has been all along... just a latecomer.

Whether or not a dual Athlon fx whatever can beat it on the desktop is irrelevant for notebooks. Though it's extraordinary just how close the performance is at all really.