battlesite
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join:2001-03-24
Studio City, CA
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Re: AMD Athlon VS Pentium Centrino Question
said by 3SGTE  :I don't see it as an upgrade. Is battery life a concern? It's not supposed to be an upgrade so much as an equal trade. I just want to be sure it's not a downgrade.
Yes, battery life is a concern. It will very often be used away from any outlets. |
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m8trix
join:2003-12-24
Phoenix, AZ | well just from a cpu vs cpu the athlon whether it be athlon xp or athlon 64 its better then a single core centrino at the same speed |
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Xtort
join:2001-07-28
Edmonton, AB
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I've used a few Turion X2 and Centrino based notebooks and the battery life is nearly the same. I'm using a Toshiba Satellite-Pro A200-01H at the moment and the battery life is pretty much the same as my HP Pavilion dv2000.
At this point, I would say that you are not getting a downgrade. The Centrino notebook that you had could have been 3 years old by now. If your processor was labeled as the Pentium-M and not the Core Solo, you definitely have one of the early generation Centrino notebooks, probably the Sonoma platform. Sonoma being a Pentium-M / GMA 900 graphics / Intel 2200BG wireless adapter combination.
The new notebook that you would be getting or already have is definitely an upgrade. You get a dual-core processor that is capable of running 64-bit Windows, DDR2 memory, and a graphics system that is much better than the GMA 900. Even if the graphics system is the GeForce 6150, it's still miles ahead. The battery life would be the same as the Turion X2 uses less power than the old Pentium-M Dothan.
If you concerned about battery life, see if the notebook comes with a battery that has more than 6 cells in it.
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battlesite
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Studio City, CA
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Thank you, everybody for the replies. You've been a big help.
I just read that the Athlon uses considerably more power, and therefore runs hotter than the Turion. Battery life might be a problem.
Other than that, I guess it's an okay trade. Maybe I can talk them into some kind of a deal on something with a Turion. |
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tipstir
join:2004-11-14
Enfield, CT
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| Well true it uses more power in AMD, but you can download the AMD Power add on software to reduce the CPU down thus increasing battery life. Like 1.8GHz would be 800MHz. That's how Intel does with mobile CPU but unlike them AMD give you the choice to go full power again. Intel P-M and Centrio whatever is based on the PIII mobile CPU features. AMD X64-bit and up is better than Intel, as with the AMD you can to a lot with the CPU. I repair systems and laptop. I've even taken out the CPU in a laptop and make one laptop faster than the other. Old PIII DELL C600 series can have the CPU take out and jack-up to 1GHz, remove the HDD which is a slow poke and put in a Hitachi 40GB 7,200RPM HDD or better just update the BIOS so you can use larger 2.5 HDDs. Run XP Pro do a lot with these still.
I even got 10 year Toshiba Tecra 8000 PII 266MHz L2 512KB, 256MB SDRAM, 256-bit Video, still going and it runs XP Pro with graphics and Firefox 3.1. Still I only use that for surfing the web, but it can run Sun Open Office. Again the trick here is to get rid of the old HDD in these laptops. Replace the LCD panels if they're gone or dark, still I keep them running until you can's use them any more. You can also turn them into WDS Hopper, just need 10/100 or 10/100/1000 MiniPCI NiC or swap that out for Tp-Link 802.11 b/g/n 300mbps or just use PCMICA 802.11 b/g/n with the Mini PCI 10/100/1000 miniPCI. Just need a cross over cable and some minor adjustments to the network configuration. Wala you got your own WDS Hopper! |
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