Are Celeron M and Pentium M cpu's Centrino'fied?
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Are Celeron M and Pentium M cpu's Centrino'fied?
I'm in the market for a new laptop and mostly all the ones on sale are Celeron M or Pentium M cpu based. I know the differences between a Celeron and Pentium are cache, which doesn't matter to me. But I'm curious to know if the "M" also means that its a Centrino. So will a Celeron M cpu capable of being a Centrino'fied laptop?
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Originally Posted by jcl_cls01
I'm in the market for a new laptop and mostly all the ones on sale are Celeron M or Pentium M cpu based. I know the differences between a Celeron and Pentium are cache, which doesn't matter to me. But I'm curious to know if the "M" also means that its a Centrino. So will a Celeron M cpu capable of being a Centrino'fied laptop?
Centrino = PentiumM + Intel Chipset(855 or 854 I believe) + Intel WiFi card. Centrino is simply the brand name Intel has come up with for the combination of these 3 parts.
now what happens if you have a wifi card from someone other than intel? Well then your laptop cant be called a "centrino" but who cares? Intel does not have the most robust wifi solution so often times its actually better to not have a "centrino" but a pentium-m laptop + 3rd party wifi.
if you care about battery life, only concern yourself with getting a pentium-m based laptop, centrino or not. if you want better performance while still having good battery life, look at a mobile athlon64. id stay away from p4 laptops if I were you.
oh and the current pentium-m (the Dothan revision) has 4x the l2 cache as the celeron-m (2mb vs 512k). you should care about this as there will be an appreciable difference in performance between the 2.
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Originally Posted by Davediego
I'm not too sure what you mean by "Centrino'fied" so I'll break down exactly what Centrino and its various components are.
Centrino = PentiumM + Intel Chipset(855 or 854 I believe) + Intel WiFi card. Centrino is simply the brand name Intel has come up with for the combination of these 3 parts.
now what happens if you have a wifi card from someone other than intel? Well then your laptop cant be called a "centrino" but who cares? Intel does not have the most robust wifi solution so often times its actually better to not have a "centrino" but a pentium-m laptop + 3rd party wifi.
if you care about battery life, only concern yourself with getting a pentium-m based laptop, centrino or not. if you want better performance while still having good battery life, look at a mobile athlon64. id stay away from p4 laptops if I were you.
oh and the current pentium-m (the Dothan revision) has 4x the l2 cache as the celeron-m (2mb vs 512k). you should care about this as there will be an appreciable difference in performance between the 2.
Centrino = PentiumM + Intel Chipset(855 or 854 I believe) + Intel WiFi card. Centrino is simply the brand name Intel has come up with for the combination of these 3 parts.
now what happens if you have a wifi card from someone other than intel? Well then your laptop cant be called a "centrino" but who cares? Intel does not have the most robust wifi solution so often times its actually better to not have a "centrino" but a pentium-m laptop + 3rd party wifi.
if you care about battery life, only concern yourself with getting a pentium-m based laptop, centrino or not. if you want better performance while still having good battery life, look at a mobile athlon64. id stay away from p4 laptops if I were you.
oh and the current pentium-m (the Dothan revision) has 4x the l2 cache as the celeron-m (2mb vs 512k). you should care about this as there will be an appreciable difference in performance between the 2.
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Originally Posted by Davediego
I'm not too sure what you mean by "Centrino'fied" so I'll break down exactly what Centrino and its various components are.
Centrino = PentiumM + Intel Chipset(855 or 854 I believe) + Intel WiFi card. Centrino is simply the brand name Intel has come up with for the combination of these 3 parts.
now what happens if you have a wifi card from someone other than intel? Well then your laptop cant be called a "centrino" but who cares? Intel does not have the most robust wifi solution so often times its actually better to not have a "centrino" but a pentium-m laptop + 3rd party wifi.
if you care about battery life, only concern yourself with getting a pentium-m based laptop, centrino or not. if you want better performance while still having good battery life, look at a mobile athlon64. id stay away from p4 laptops if I were you.
oh and the current pentium-m (the Dothan revision) has 4x the l2 cache as the celeron-m (2mb vs 512k). you should care about this as there will be an appreciable difference in performance between the 2.
Centrino = PentiumM + Intel Chipset(855 or 854 I believe) + Intel WiFi card. Centrino is simply the brand name Intel has come up with for the combination of these 3 parts.
now what happens if you have a wifi card from someone other than intel? Well then your laptop cant be called a "centrino" but who cares? Intel does not have the most robust wifi solution so often times its actually better to not have a "centrino" but a pentium-m laptop + 3rd party wifi.
if you care about battery life, only concern yourself with getting a pentium-m based laptop, centrino or not. if you want better performance while still having good battery life, look at a mobile athlon64. id stay away from p4 laptops if I were you.
oh and the current pentium-m (the Dothan revision) has 4x the l2 cache as the celeron-m (2mb vs 512k). you should care about this as there will be an appreciable difference in performance between the 2.
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