Quote:
|
I do and so do most of the other people I know of. ot everybody needs a hi-tech cpu for their personal use. A personal laptop is basically used for internet, music and MS office and some other basic stuff. And celeron M performs all that very well.
|
The celeron-M does perform very well in the scenario yiu've mentioned above....However, the point I was trying to make relates to this earlier quote:
Quote:
|
The difference between battery life of pentium M and celeron M comes to 20% if both are allowed to downclock. Otherwise on constant usage the difference is lessened.
|
The idea being that P-M/Turion64 both run at underclocked speeds (say 0.8Ghz instead of 1.6ghz) under normal usage when the user is browsing/running office tasks....therefore in a normal battery full-empty cycle, the proccy (p-M/Turion64) would run at full speeds say 15% of the time while running underclocked 85% of the time....
The comparable Celeron-M 360 lacking sppedstep will run at 1.6ghz all the while..therefore everything else remaining the same, the celeron-M machine will give say 2:45 hrs tme vis-a-vis say 3 hrs on the Turion MT-30 (not ML) and say 3:15 hrs on the P-M....
Also, in the posted link,i wonder if you noticed that they have pitted a ML44 at a 2.4 Gig clock against a 2.0 Gig P-M760 which makes me think twiceabout the accuracy of the comparison test.....i mean Techreport is no Anandtech or Tomshardware after all
Also, Whatever I have stated above is about the 3 chips is out of my own personal experience with my old laptop (A Banias core celeronM at 1.6 Gig,) my owrk machine, a IBM R51 (p-M 725 @1.6gig) and my new baby , a Fujitsu s2110 (Turion MT30 again @1.6 gig)
I see absolutely no discernible performance difference between the three if viewed subjectively....
However,having said that, the P-M does do a faster job at tasks like encoding
DV videos to MPEG2, ripping DVDs to DivX etc.
Quote:
|
Xpress 200m. That's what I use but intel doesnt only rely on i915. You name the gpu and I will show a pentium M notebook with that gfx.
|
sure they do...the xps gen2 comes with a Go7800 GTX, no less...but most mainstream centrino ship with the default Intel GMA 900 chipset and similarly most Turion lappys ship with the xpress 200m