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Originally Posted by Dippy Thanks for the advice tsk. I will go for the centrino R51 . How ever I just want3ed to if an external wireless card can be added to the celeron powered Thinkpad
Also if I have integrated wireless as on the centrino, how do i get a wireless internet service for eg I get the Relainace card here . Now by card does that mean a wireless card or relainces card to access the net
Basically i want to know is there a difference between a external wireless card and that card by relaince or are they the same thing
I'm just confused just wanted to clarify things |
whats wrong with the acer aspire 5000 series? IF a Turion is fine with you thats the one you should go with.Its lightweight and based on acers successful Folio chassis.
Even if you go with IBM dont get an external wirless card. Inbuilt wireless is always better.
But still acers aspires are real cheap too and they give around 3hours of battery life. forget all the myths people say about amd's heating and AMD's not being good.
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Originally Posted by tsk1979
This discussion is getting a little too subjective!
There are pros and cons for everything and same is with centrino.
For more knowlege look at the diagram from intel about LAPTOP connections http://www.intel.com/products/i/chip...iagram_760.gif.
Also a link to an interesting znet article slamming the centrino and intels response http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1583
The thing we are debating here "Is centrino worth it?" has been debated again and again. The link above gives the points and counter-points from intel
I hope Dippy's knowlege has really increased!
But I think you agree with me that having a 802.11b will mean buying a 2000rs wireless card at a later stage to get higher speeds. 802.11g 802.11n is the way to go!
As of now intel gives you theree wirless choices
* 2100B - 802.11b 11Mbps only.
* 2200BG - 802.11b (11Mbps) and 802.11g (54Mbps).
* 2915ABG - 802.11a (11Mbps), 802.11b (11Mbps), 802.11g (54Mbps), support for future 802.11e, h, i, etc.
the ABG is the way to go, support for future speed increases too! |
lets see if centrino is really worht the hype or not. Intel has put in millions of Dollars to see that centrino is really a success.
Centrino core is based on the p-3 core. P-3 is supposed to be more efficient in power and heat comparision.
the sonoma core is the fastest and powerful pentium M around
against the sonoma is the Turion counterpart. Turions are based on the athlons.
turion
less availability due to malpractices by intel. They force the manufacturers to not sell amd's. A case is already on in US & Europe and Intel has already lost in Japan
less chipsets and mothersboards. Hence less options available. I was searching for a amd notebook with nvidia 6600. There is none to date in the market
two options to choose from 35W against the 27W and 25W against the ULV's.
TUrion is 64-bit and cheaper
128kb L1 cache against 64kb L1 cache in pentium M
1mb L2 cache against 2mb l2 cache
no dual channel memory dual channel memory
1600MHZ FSb 533mhz fsb
SSE3 multimedia extensions no sse3 multimedia extension
integrated Memory controller External memory controller
approx 3hours batttery life approx 4 hours battery life
pentium package is usually more expensive than amd package. performance wise both are equal. battery life pentium M is 1 hour ahead. Heat dissipation is better in Turion. Turion is win64 and windows vista ready which centrino is not.
For me Turion wins.
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Originally Posted by Selective I disagree, it is not gimmik. Centrino is not just wireless cards. Centrino is M processor, wireless and battery life as a whole package. And they work better together to give more battery life, good roaming connection as I mentioned earlier.
If you are just talking Intel 802.11a/b/g cards only, then it is a different story all together. There is more to talk apart from standards with respecto to software. I dont want to go in detail, but can give one example for the quality.
During the recent hurrycane in east coast of US, US govt wanted network connectivity as wired world was gone for toss, the US govt evaluated all the vendors and selected Intel Centrino and that too with pre-market release hardware & software. That shows the reliability and confidence.
I am saying all this because dont take chances for 3-8 thousands rupees more. If something goes wrong, the experience to get the problem fixed with laptop is horrible! So, why take chances?
Selective. |
and AMD taylor is coming soon to counter the centrino platform.
psst:- the yonah Dual core is out and up for sale. Wait for the amd 64-bit dual cores now.