centrino duo

[priad]

Someone have tested it or seen one test?
I must buy a laptop and I don't know what to choose: AMDX2 or centrino duo.

[jow]

Not a lot of help but i did test one of the original centrinos Vs a P4 lappy.

using neovisuals old test:-

about 14mins for the centrino 1.6mhz 512 ram

about 10 mins for the P4 3.2mhz 1g ram

so they are fairly quick,but after having a couple of X2s (desktops)
i wouldnt go back to intel...

hope it helps,abit...

[BlueShift]

Keep in mind that Centrino's are designed to run mobile (cooler and lower voltage), whilst AMD X2's and regular Intel P4's are not.

The real question is simple, are you going to be traveling with it (using its battery) or not (where ever you setup shop to work has a ready power point )? If you don't need it to run of its battery then go with an X2, otherwise Centrino Dual would be a more feasible choice giving you longer battery life.


/BlueShift

[cpnichols]

Just my humble opinon, but I pretty much think that AMD has the best and most powerful Desktop CPU, and Intel Centino's are the best mobil CPU. Both of which are amazing. Until AMD can make a super low voltage version of the the X2, or until the Centrino can speed up some more and go to 64 bits, it will stay that way.

[RErender]

Just my humble opinon, but I pretty much think that AMD has the best and most powerful Desktop CPU, and Intel Centrino's are the best mobil CPU. Both of which are amazing. Until AMD can make a super low voltage version of the the X2, or until the Centrino can speed up some more and go to 64 bits, it will stay that way.

The dual core version of the centrino should show up in the second half of this year. Actually almost all of Intels chips will be based on them by then.

[cpnichols]

Just my humble opinon, but I pretty much think that AMD has the best and most powerful Desktop CPU, and Intel Centrino's are the best mobil CPU. Both of which are amazing. Until AMD can make a super low voltage version of the the X2, or until the Centrino can speed up some more and go to 64 bits, it will stay that way.

The dual core version of the centrino should show up in the second half of this year. Actually almost all of Intels chips will be based on them by then.

The new dual core Centrinos are already out:

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellsto...1705s1&x=8&y=9

In fact, very soon, you will see the new Apple with the new dual core centrino.

Some reviews:
http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=2663&p=1

[RErender]

Cool, I knew samples were sent to the oem's but everything I read said they would show up later. Middle of Feburary is much better than June.

I guess Q3 is still what we are looking at before we see the dual come pentium M based workstation chips.

[cpnichols]

Cool, I knew samples were sent to the oem's but everything I read said they would show up later. Middle of Feburary is much better than June.

I guess Q3 is still what we are looking at before we see the dual come pentium M based workstation chips.

Yeap... I pretty happy that AMD is kicking Intels ass in terms of Workstation procs, not because I prefer one over the other, but because it makes for good competition which makes for faster chips for us. When Intel catches up the AMD, then AMD may be able to drop its price and then we will be in good shape.

[jow]

ah yes,should of included battery times,

about 4hours life on the centrino.
and only about 1 hour on the P4.

[cpnichols]

apparently the new centrino duo has even better battery life then the single core centrino by around 1 or 2%

[studioDIM]

Probably going a bit off-topic, but Apple launched the "MacBook Pro" with intel cpus today...

http://newtech.aurum3.com/content/view/73/18/

It sounds funny to read "Apple claims that the Dual Core Processor will deliver up to four times the performance of the PowerBook G4."

2 times 2, so a single Intel Core Duo core @ 1.83 Ghz is twice as fast as a single G4?

[ksmeltzer]

Although the big thing missing from all their info is the battery life. Are their any pc laptops with this chip out yet? A dual-boot machine with mac osx and windows would make me

Probably going a bit off-topic, but Apple launched the "MacBook Pro" with intel cpus today...

http://newtech.aurum3.com/content/view/73/18/

It sounds funny to read "Apple claims that the Dual Core Processor will deliver up to four times the performance of the PowerBook G4."

2 times 2, so a single Intel Core Duo core @ 1.83 Ghz is twice as fast as a single G4?

[cpnichols]

If you see my above post, you will see that Dell also offers this chip. It also offers it in faster processor. But keep in mind, if you want an Apple, you can still load it with windows:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10794396/from/RS.3/

You can also load the Dell with the new OSX (based on the Intel chip).

Basically, the Apple computer is just a normal PC now... with some added Apple toys.

[cpnichols]

2 times 2, so a single Intel Core Duo core @ 1.83 Ghz is twice as fast as a single G4?

Dude... the G4 is a processor that is around 6+ years old... what do you think? I bet that the 4x times faster is being generous. I bet single core to single core it is around 4 times faster, when you start doing multi-threading it could probably be around 8 times faster.

[ksmeltzer]

missed that, I was looking at dell's site but the mobile workstation laptops like the m70 aren't using that chip yet...

there were rumors that apple was going to use intel's new security features for keeping osx only on apple hardware so you might not be able to as easily put osx on a dell (although I'm sure somebody would hack it eventually)

If you see my above post, you will see that Dell also offers this chip. It also offers it in faster processor. But keep in mind, if you want an Apple, you can still load it with windows:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10794396/from/RS.3/

You can also load the Dell with the new OSX (based on the Intel chip).

Basically, the Apple computer is just a normal PC now... with some added Apple toys.