Centrino vs P4M Mobile P4

**TechZ** · April 6th, 2004, 03:44 AM

Any thoughts on the subject, i'm getting a Centrino 1.4, compared in benchmarkjs of PCMark 2002 it gets a 4500, compared to a Mobile P4 2.8 that gets 6800, still not bad, considering LG XNOTE, has a great VGA card ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 w/64mb dedicated vram, excellent design.

I;m looking for either a 1.5 centrino or a min Mobile 2.4 P4/512ram/dedicated vga/combo cdrw-dvdrom/40gb/15"

**NooNoo** · April 6th, 2004, 06:41 AM

Centrino is about wireless and long battery life.

What question are you actually trying to ask?

**Matridom** · April 6th, 2004, 07:30 AM

uhm, centrino is a p4 mobile with the laptop having a built in wireless nic. nothing more.

the p4 mobile does have better poewr saving features compared to the celeron.

**NooNoo** · April 6th, 2004, 07:42 AM

I beg to differ Matridom

http://www.intel.com/products/notebo....htm?iid=sr+4&

http://www.intel.com/products/notebo...obiletech+pmp&

The M and the P4M are different processors.

**Matridom** · April 6th, 2004, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

I beg to differ Matridom

http://www.intel.com/products/notebo....htm?iid=sr+4&

http://www.intel.com/products/notebo...obiletech+pmp&

The M and the P4M are different processors.

I stand corrected.

**NooNoo** · April 6th, 2004, 08:26 AM

Oh? they make you stand at work now do they?

**Matridom** · April 6th, 2004, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Oh? they make you stand at work now do they?

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**TechZ** · April 7th, 2004, 12:37 AM

i cant decide betweeen a centrino 1.5 and a p4m 2.4, i'm looking for some newer benchmarks to compare the two.

The centrino, p4m and mobile p4 are 3 diff processors and i think the p4m is being phased out.

I am trying to decide between the HP zt3000/zx5000 and teh LG XNOTE,
the lg seems to be manufcatured by ibm or theres some collaboration going on -- www.lgibm.co.kr/, any input would be much appreciated

**TechZ** · April 7th, 2004, 01:16 AM

Min Req
Centrino 1.5/512/40/64mb dedicated video/combo
or
P4m 2.4/512/40/64mb dedicated video/combo

**NooNoo** · April 7th, 2004, 01:37 AM

Look at the processor cache Techz, and why is benchmarking so important to you?

BTW my 1.6M spanks my 2.8 (no HT) on a straight number crunching race.

**TechZ** · April 8th, 2004, 01:13 PM

thats exactly what i meant, a centrino can beat a p4m or mobile p4, well i went ahead and bought a hp zt3020ea - 1.5/512/40/combo/ati9200_64mb/15.4"

**TechZ** · April 12th, 2004, 12:15 AM

here another nb question, hp recommends u dont recharge the batteries until they have about 10% charge left, commom sense, we do that for our mobiles also, but as soon as i come home and plug in the ac power it starts to charge the battery, is there no way to connect to ac power and not charge teh battery