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Speed of Pentium M vs. Mobile Pentium 4

post #1 of 4
1/6/04 at 1:24am
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So what exactly is the comparison factor between a Pentium M and a Mobile Pentium 4? I heard something like the Pentium M times 1.5 = Mob. Pent. 4.

So a 1.6 GHz Pentium M would be equivalent to 2.4 GHz Pentium 4?
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post #2 of 4
1/6/04 at 1:28am
Not quite. A 1.7GHz Pentium M is basically on par with a 2.4GHz P4.
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post #3 of 4
1/6/04 at 4:05pm
Quote from Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800&p=1
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When looking at the present, the 1.6GHz Pentium-M is comparable to a Pentium 4-M 2.2/2.4GHz, with the 1.5GHz Pentium-M falling somewhere in the 2.0 - 2.2GHz range. For business/office applications, the Pentium-M is unbeatable, clearly outperforming the fastest mobile Pentium 4 at 2.40GHz. When dealing with games and media encoding applications, the Pentium 4 will be faster, but by no means will it be able to offer the battery life of a Pentium-M based system.

For the foreseeable future, the Pentium 4-M and Pentium-M will coexist, but the Pentium 4-M will be mostly restricted to the highest end desktop replacement notebooks, where battery life isn't as big of a concern. For all other segments, the Pentium-M and the Centrino platform will do their job better than the Pentium 4 ever could.
This was back in March '03.
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post #4 of 4
1/6/04 at 4:22pm
here we go again....
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