Centrino

[Roger Frye-2]

I had to make a rush purchase of a laptop yesterday.  It has a 1.7GHz  
Centrino chip.  The Best Buy salesperson assured me that it was equivalent  
to a 2.7GHz Pentium 4.  Was he bullshitting me?  I haven't done any speed  
tests yet.
-Roger

[Martin C. Martin]

I've got a 1.8 GHz Centrino laptop, and it's about 2.8 times faster than
the 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 desktop in the next room.

- Martin

Roger Frye wrote:

>I had to make a rush purchase of a laptop yesterday.  It has a 1.7GHz  
>Centrino chip.  The Best Buy salesperson assured me that it was equivalent  
>to a 2.7GHz Pentium 4.  Was he bullshitting me?  I haven't done any speed  
>tests yet.
>-Roger
>
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[Mike Morrison]

my centrino is able to run world of warcraft fine and it calls for at least
a 1. ghz p4 chip

On 9/16/05, Roger Frye <rfrye at commodicast.com> wrote:

>
> I had to make a rush purchase of a laptop yesterday. It has a 1.7GHz
> Centrino chip. The Best Buy salesperson assured me that it was equivalent
> to a 2.7GHz Pentium 4. Was he bullshitting me? I haven't done any speed
> tests yet.
> -Roger
>
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[Mike Morrison]

i also used to work for the best buy in santa fe, in the future i can tell
you which comp sales guys know what they are talking about and which ones
won't bullshit you

On 9/17/05, Mike Morrison <mtmichael at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> my centrino is able to run world of warcraft fine and it calls for at
> least a 1. ghz p4 chip
>
> On 9/16/05, Roger Frye <rfrye at commodicast.com> wrote:
> >
> > I had to make a rush purchase of a laptop yesterday. It has a 1.7GHz
> > Centrino chip. The Best Buy salesperson assured me that it was
> > equivalent
> > to a 2.7GHz Pentium 4. Was he bullshitting me? I haven't done any speed
> > tests yet.
> > -Roger
> >
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[Tim Densmore]

In the long run, it doesn't really matter - putting P4s in laptops is
(IMO) absurd unless what you are looking for is more akin to a
"luggable" than a lappy.  Centrino is perfect for laptops -- it
supports speed stepping, outputs much less heat, and sucks much less
juice.  I do not believe that a Pent-M is twice as fast as the
corresponding P4, but I think it's the right chip for a laptop.  My t42
w/ a 1.6 in it runs beautifully, though, so I think you'll be fine.

Thank you,
Tim Densmore

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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
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On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Mike Morrison wrote:

> i also used to work for the best buy in santa fe, in the future i can
> tell you which comp sales guys know what they are talking about and
> which ones won't bullshit you
>
> On 9/17/05, Mike Morrison <mtmichael at gmail.com> wrote: my centrino is
> able to run world of warcraft fine and it calls for at least a 1. ghz
> p4 chip
>>
>>
>> On 9/16/05, Roger Frye <rfrye at commodicast.com > wrote: I had to make
>> a rush purchase of a laptop yesterday.??It has a 1.7GHz
>>> Centrino chip.??The Best Buy salesperson assured me that it was
>>> equivalent
>>> to a 2.7GHz Pentium 4.??Was he bullshitting me???I haven't done any
>>> speed
>>> tests yet.
>>> -Roger
>>>
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>> Meets Fridays 9:30a-11:30 at ad hoc locations
>>> Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, etc.:
>>> http://www.friam.org
>>
> ============================================================
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