Centrino?

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Sequentious · Post by **Sequentious** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:10 am

jasjonrac wrote:going back a bit, Centrino isn't a processor. It's basically a marketing tool. In order to call your laptop centrino, it has to have a pentium M (not P4-M) and intel's wireless chipset. it's a marketing tool becuase Intel advertises centrino, not the pentium M or intel's wireless.

Yeah, but you have to hand it to them. For the average consumer, knowing "centrino" is wireless and long battery life saves them alot of time, and probably makes intel some extra revenue. For us geeks, we can just look at the specs, but the average shopper (including me in things outside of electronics) just look for those buzzwords they recognize

And just to anally-clarify, Centrino is actually the p-m, the wireless chipset, AND the system chipset. 2/3's of centrino is really cool though

olav · Post by **olav** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:13 am

Think heat, fans and noise. The P4 runs hot! Also, I have seen a Centrino 1.6 GHz beat a P4 2.0 GHz hands down in pure number crunching applications. I would be surprised if this didn't also carry over to more normal application areas, but here I have no personal experience.

gurke · Post by **gurke** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 8:47 am

i have one here, and it works nice, after a bit fiddling. i got dynamic frequency scaling here and my fan runs max. a minute every 30 minutes, when surfing. wlan works fine now, though i dont like the idea of using a windows driver. hey, i even deleted my windows yesterday

it kept, occupying my boot partition, since i installed gentoo first this time.

Sequentious · Post by **Sequentious** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:36 am

gurke wrote:i have one here, and it works nice, after a bit fiddling. i got dynamic frequency scaling here and my fan runs max. a minute every 30 minutes, when surfing. wlan works fine now, though i dont like the idea of using a windows driver. hey, i even deleted my windows yesterday it kept, occupying my boot partition, since i installed gentoo first this time.

Even at 100%, my cpu fan _never_ comes on when just surfing. Granted, mine is the 1.3GHz p-m.

The nice thing about the p-m is that I can clock it down to 600MHz, emerge something, and even then the fan doesnt come on (takes ages, but i can keep it on my lap).

gurke · Post by **gurke** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:57 am

i also got a geforce fx go, that may also be the cause for the fan coming up

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 1:39 pm

The most galling thing about centrino is the way it is marketed.

Some dunce on a laptop on a mountain, chatting to some geezer on a beach. Er, no, that's not something centrino gives you. False advertising IMHO.

Sequentious · Post by **Sequentious** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:17 pm

charlieg wrote:The most galling thing about centrino is the way it is marketed.

Some dunce on a laptop on a mountain, chatting to some geezer on a beach. Er, no, that's not something centrino gives you. False advertising IMHO.

The airport one is also kind of shady. Not every airport has WIFI access, and not for free at some that do.

gurke wrote: i also got a geforce fx go, that may also be the cause for the fan coming up

Could be, I have a 7500 mobility. But I would think simple browsing still wouldnt push the card very hard.