Intel's Expensive Mobile P4-M Disappoints

lokem · Mar 24, 2002

Hope this of interest... Just noticed this article over at Van's Hardware:

ZDNet has reviewed two of the latest top of the range Intel 1.7GHz P4-M notebooks from Sony and Dell and has found performance to be disappointing for both models when running mainstream productivity applications. Business Winstone 2001 was used to obtain these results. What was really surprising in this test was that both machines were slower than an earlier Dell model that was running an Intel 1.13GHz PIII-M processor. That's a 570MHz difference! Shouldn't Intel be advertising a performance degradation warning? Performance with content-creation applications was better than the PIII-M machine, but not compelling. With the latest mobile graphics processors, both models gave excellent graphics performance.

Other speed grades will be available at 1.4GHz, 1.5GHz and 1.6GHz. It should be obvious why Intel launched its P4-M at 1.7GHz. If Intel had launched with the 1.4GHz model, business productivity performance would have deteriorated from being merely disappointing to very poor which would have tarnished its launch. Those who buy notebooks for business productivity performance should give these products a wide birth.

Full article:
http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2002/03/020322_P4M/020322_P4M.htm

All they did was bench MP4-M against the P3-M. Wonder how the Athlon Mobile will perform against those CPUs..

Didou · Mar 24, 2002

I wonder if we could get Unc's top of the line Cyrix processor in a laptop

It would probably burn through the thing

uncleel · Mar 24, 2002

lokem, it's a good practice to start quoting the byline

Intel's Expensive Mobile P4-M Disappoints
Posted by Mario Rodrigues Date: March 22, 2002 www.vanshardware.com
http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2002/03/020322_P4M/020322_P4M.htm

p.s. my massively OC'ed Cyrix will suck the life out of any laptop batteries.

lokem · Mar 24, 2002

lokem, it's a good practice to start quoting the byline

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

p.s. my massively OC'ed Cyrix will suck the life out of any laptop batteries.

You mean the new Cyrix C3 processors? If so, I thought they're ultra low in power consumption?

svtcobra · Mar 25, 2002

Originally posted by lokem

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

You mean the new Cyrix C3 processors? If so, I thought they're ultra low in power consumption?

I believe there was a bit of sarcasm in Unk's post..

lokem · Mar 25, 2002

Originally posted by svtcobra

I believe there was a bit of sarcasm in Unk's post..

Oh darn It's about time to retune my "antenna" {GG}

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