mobile vs xp

[alibubba]

I was shopping around on newegg and now there's 2 flavours of the same cpu, just wondering the difference between a mobile 2500+ and a barton 2500+ other than mobile being more...

 

[The Coolest]

The mobile chip *should* be unlocked, its not guaranteed, but it should be, even if its not, you can always pop/cut L6s, and then set a different max multiplier.
The NB mod/BIOS upgrade will be needed for nForce2 owners, while the VIA and SiS chipsets seem to change the multies just fine on the fly from within windows

 

[legendary]

Mobile cpus also run at a lower voltage so it runs cooler than the desktop cpus. I guess it saves on electricity too. I notice that the XP2500+ mobile default fsb is 266MHz.. The desktop 2500+ default fsb is 333MHz.