tipstir
join:2004-11-14
Enfield, CT
 ·Cox HSI
| reply to battlesite
Re: AMD Athlon VS Pentium Centrino Question
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! |
battlesite
Premium
join:2001-03-24
Studio City, CA
| reply to battlesite
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. |
