Hyper-threading for mobile P4: when?

David Wolinski wrote:


I'm considering a laptop (desktop replacement) purchase in the next
month or
two and was wondering whether it was something worth waiting for.
Putting aside power consumption issues, can I assume that the
best-available
mobile P-4 gives better performance than the best-available P-M?

AIUI, a P-M at 1.7 GHz performs roughly somehwhere in the neighborhood
of a P-4 at 2.4 GHz.

--
Mike Smith

Mike Smith wrote:
David Wolinski wrote:


I'm considering a laptop (desktop replacement) purchase in the next
month or
two and was wondering whether it was something worth waiting for.
Putting aside power consumption issues, can I assume that the
best-available
mobile P-4 gives better performance than the best-available P-M?


AIUI, a P-M at 1.7 GHz performs roughly somehwhere in the neighborhood
of a P-4 at 2.4 GHz.

--
Mike Smith


The 1.6GHz Pentium-M performs roughly the same (better on 2/3 of the
benchmarks I've read) than the P4 2.4GHz. Don't forget 1.8GHz with
double the cache comes out this winter, increasing to 2GHz before next
summer. I've also heard from several web sources of reputable or
semi-reputable levels that Pentium 4M is being discontinued in favor of
Pentium-M for low power, light notebooks and desktop Pentium 4 in
"portable" desktop replacements.

Alex
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