Notebook: Pentium M vs. Pentium 4

[videoholic]

Can someone explain to me what the M chip is?

The speed rating is half of the 4 chip, but they are roughly the same price.  

What benefits does the chip have on it in leu of speed?

[nO-One]

M = low power about equal performance, the p4 is really not suited for notebooks so the p4m was born.

Agreed. I would NOT recommend getting a P4 notebook.

A 1.8 M will perform like a 3.0 P4

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2129&p=8

the M is the better chip, but for Notebook gaming go AMD 64

[videoholic]

AH, interesting.  THey shouldn\'t publish then the processor speed because if you didn\'t know that you would think the computer was half the speed.

I figured it was something. Merci.

^^
I agree, they should do what AMD does and call it a p4M 3000+

mhz isn\'t what it\'s all about anymore

intel is going to start labeling their processors with "approximate performance" ratings.. something they and most everyone else gave AMD crap for a few years back.

and I agree... get the M if you just gotta have that intel feeling

^^yea, did you read about how Intel is not going to be making a 4ghz processor but is instead going to focus on other methods to crank more calculations out at the same speed of current processors?  Guess they finally hit a platuea plateua plateau.

plato.

Well, they\'ll hit 10 GHz in 2007!11!2#!! Or not...

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

Intel are learning from AMD.. A company mm said would "go the way of cyrix"  


so, ehhhhhhh still waiting mm.