mobile processing power

[ssprncvegeta]

i forget what are the names of the mobile processors; i've seen the athlon XP m, intel centrino, pentium 4m, i think i've heard of prescott m, and athlon 64m. in this month's issue of PC Gamer magazine, it shows two high-end laptops with intel pentium 4 extreme edition processors in them. is that the desktop cpu in it? they seem nice but the laptops come out to some $4000-5000 and i don't to spend THAT much, something like $3500 or less. i'll be using this for college and for gaming. so...

what's the best laptop processor?

what's the best laptop video card (i think i've seen 9700m 256mb)?

 

[Xenon74]

I think these ones will do the job
http://www.go-l.com/laptops/index.htm

hollywood gold series
http://www.go-l.com/store/hardware/hollywood_gold.htm

hollywood silver series
http://www.go-l.com/store/hardware/hollywood_silver.htm

producer series
http://www.go-l.com/store/hardware/producer.htm

studio silver http://www.go-l.com/store/hardware/studio_silver.htm

 

[Xenon74]

my 2 favorites

eMachines M6805
http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=eMachines_M6805

eMachinesM6809
http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=eMachines_M6809

review @ pcper
http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=24&type=expert&pid=1

 

[ssprncvegeta]

ok ya, those are laptops. but can anyone answer my question about which is the fastest mobile processor and video card?

 

[stan03]

yea the 9700 is the best vid card... idk about cpu

 

[Albuquerque]

The AMD64 Mobile is the fastest mobile processor, and the fastest mobile video chipset is the mobile "9700" -- which is actually an overclocked mobile 9600 and does not actually have eight rendering pipelines like the name would suggest.

 

[ssprncvegeta]

what about the 3.4ee i've seen in some notebooks? the laptop comes out to $4900, but does putting the desktop cpu in it make it run faster then even the AMD64 Mobile?

 

[Albuquerque]

If we were talking about desktop processors, then sure a laptop with a 3.4EE wedged into would be faster. But since we're talking about mobile processors with total battery life in excess of 60 minutes at full power, the AMD64 is gonna win

 

[hkh]

If you are going to keep it hooked up to a plug all day, then the p4EE would be the faster, but if you are going to use it as a laptop and do gaming on the side I would go for the A64.

 

[ssprncvegeta]

ok.

the magazine said they lasted at minimum of an hour and a half. not bad for a desktop cpu, eh?

 

[stan03]

wow, i guess thats why i want a centrino

 

[Albuquerque]

90 minutes? And you're saying not bad?!? Playing games on a laptop is one thing, but killing your battery to play a game on a flight from Kansas City to Chicago is embarassing...

I played Unreal Tournament 2K3 for my first flight, surfed the web wirelessly at my stopover point, and played my SNES emulator on the second flight and still had enough battery power to surf the web again at my final destination waiting for my ride. That's somewhere around five hours of life, I'm using an IBM Thinkpad R50 with the 1.4ghz Pentium M / Centrino setup. And all without burning a hole in my lap...

Compare that to ninety minutes and you can see why I really don't appreciate desktop processors wedged into laptops.

 

[stan03]

im not sure but i guess he was being a little sarcastic... and for an ee i wouldn't have even expected it to last that long.

 

[ssprncvegeta]

and for an ee i wouldn't have even expected it to last that long.

exactly. those things pump out tons of watts. it's a SERVER processor working on a LAPTOP. 1.5 hours seems like a while, although it's not great for mobileness, that's not the point. if there is a power source u can plug it in and play halo at decent framerates.

 

[KOXC2003]

Yea but if you need it for college, battery life has to be your friend. Ibuypower has some nice gaming notebooks.

http://www.ibuypower.com/ibp.net/store/configurator.aspx?mid=94

plenty options, price it up. Low base price to= room for upgrade options.

 

[Arkaine23]

http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/2001/systems-mobile.htm

I'd go for an Athlon64 notebook because its a good compromise for price/performance/battery life. A pentium M would be alright as well, though probably a little slower.

If I was looking to save money, the emachines M680* are a good series and great value.

 

[ssprncvegeta]

pentium 4m slow down when unplugged, and lower even further when reaching the end of its battery life.

i was thinking about an Alienware, since if you want to upgrade the graphics you can do it yourself and not have to pay to ship it to the maker and have them do it, the video card'd prolly cost more that way too..

 

[Quailane]

You could always upgrade the cpu on a laptop. Do you think that the 3.4EE is really a good waste of money compared to the 3.2EE or just regular 3.4 or 3.2?

 

[Sunburn]

I would just wait for the Dothan 2GHz (755); it has 2MB cache and is based on the 90-nanometer process and will be introduced on the 9th of May.

Supposedly it will smoke Intel 3ghz + processors and anything AMD mobile can throw at it PLUS you can expect a battery life that other Intel and AMD chips can't even come close to. Right now regular P M's @ 1.7 compare directly to 3Ghz Intel CPU so I wonder what 2ghz w/ new tech will do.

Personally I would like a 1.5Ghz Dothan Low Volt or a 1.2Ghz Ultra Low Volt in my laptop since it only uses 7 watts! LoL I bet you could get 12 hours of battery time out of these especially when Intel combines them with the ultra low volt LCD screen tech that Intel has invested in and which is ready for mass production.

Some links:

Dothan: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15176

LCD tech: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15109

 

[Quailane]

since it only uses 7 watts!

Not possible.