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Originally posted by juicylinks
Yo i was checking dell out for laptops. The Centrinoone goies up tonly 1.2 ghz whats the advantage of this processor
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They go up to 1.7 or 1.8 now. This is not the same as a Pentium 4 1.8, however. When Intel designed the pentium 4 they took features out of the proccessor inorder to bump up the clock speed. This was for marketing pruposes and also because they felt it was more effecient that way. A 1ghz pentium 3 would be faster than a 1.4ghz pentium 4 in most applications. The centrino proccessor is closer to Pentium 3 architecture so a 1.7 ghz centrino will actually outperfrom a 2.66ghz pentium 4 in many applications. the biggest advantage of a centrino is probably battery life. The centrino draws much less power than the pentium 4 and has made notebooks capable of incredible run times. for example, the IBM thinkpad t40 runs for 6 Hours on the battery. The main disadvantage to the centino is the price premium and some perofrmance weakspots like video encoding (not so much a weakspot just a pentium 4 strong suit). The bottom line is if you want a powerhouse notebook get a penium 4 3.0ghz or something. If you want somethign a little more portable and compant get a centrino. FYI, A pentium 4 3.0 will typically last only an hour or two unless it has a really big ass battery.
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http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800