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From what i understand, the Centrino badge is the badge given to a lappy that has a Pentium M proc and a built in wi-fi card. You can get a lappy with the Pentium M and no built in wi-fi card, but it will not be a "Centrino". No Pentium 4 (Destop or Mobile) can be Centrinos since the Pentium M is a completely different proc with a different architecture. Several companies offer both a Centrino (Pentium M and Wi-fi) version and a version with just the Pentium M proc.
From other sites that i've seen, they probably will continue to sell the older 8887 model since even older models are still for sale at other resellers. As for the other questions.........i dunno
myrkat, I completely agree, but on the other hand, if an incorrect branch predicition is made, the P4 must flush out the entire pipeline before it can continue its calculations. This is why a higher clockspeed P4 was inferior to a lower Athlon. That is why although the P4 will be able to scale unbelievably, it is not and will never be a truly efficient design
I am an avid reader of Maximum Pc and in their last issue, ATI gave them a mock-up laptop with the m10 on an agp board and asked them to test it up against the DESKTOP Nvidia FX 5600, it actually managed to beat it in several key categories. I don't care what the processor speeds are, and if the mobile version of a gpu can beat the desktop version, then the FX 5600 Go really has no chance. Processor speed has really lost a lot of meaning these days which is why the Pentium...
believe me i know that even though i've only been here for a short while, i just wanted to provide the info to those who still haven't seen the advantages of a sager
actually i read somewhere in a maximumpc that alienware will upgrade their laptops provided that the user pays for all the parts and then the labor is free
well when i'm at college, people see my modded rig and from that, they assume i can or am willing to help them with their comps
There is one downside to building your own comp........ and that is the help that people expect you to provide when they have problems with their computers especially at 3 am when they're writing a paper and happen to live on your floor
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