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Originally Posted by dellbert
jjfcpa, do you have any power consumption numbers? I haven't seen the numbers, but I'd be surprised if Sonoma eats fewer watts than Dothan. I think they've added some chipset power-management in Alviso, but I wouldn't expect the power savings to be huge. Except, of course, compared to desktop chips.
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Delbert
Here's a quote from an article on The Inquirer's website...
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The Pentium M parts are in a class of their own, and have been since launch. In fact, there is nothing else in the same league. The 533FSB Dothan parts have a TDP of 27W, and it only goes down from there. Even at this low wattage, they perform quite well. Via has comparable power figures, but not for the same level of performance. AMD has better performance but 35W is a hefty 30% more, which translates into battery life of hours less. Not cool, pun intended.
So, what does Intel have on tap? The Dothan parts at 533FSB will be launched in mid-January, just weeks from now, as we predicted some weeks ago. The Alviso chipset will bring all the goodies to market, dual channel DDR2, PCIe, and power sipping chipsets. The integrated graphics on the chipsets won't wow any gamers, but they should keep their head up in the 5.5-6.5W parts crowd.
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I guess all we can do now is to wait and see what the benchmarks show, but I think in the short time to delivery, it's worth waiting to see just how good they are.
