Pent 4's vs M's

[Dillinger4]

Ive been looking at some of the new laptops and im wondering what most of you think is the better choice. A laptop running a pent 4 or one running one of there M processors. Im pretty sure that the fsb speed of the M processors is capped at 533Mhz while the pent 4 desktop processers run at 800Mhz. Is this true? Also someone told me that intel made M-4's that are no longer produced which were crap. One more thing are there new M processors out already? Someone at my job said they are calling them dovans or somthing like that.

Thanks for any help.

[Ideas Man]

Definatly go for the Pentium-M, don't look at any others. These give you maximum battery life and a 1.6GHz Pentium-M runs at something like a 2.4GHz Pentium 4-M.

Intel has realised this and hence they have scrapped their P4 line in favour of making desktop processors built using the Pentium-M architecture.

[Dillinger4]

Posted by Ideas Man

Intel has realised this and hence they have scrapped their P4 line in favour of making desktop processors built using the Pentium-M architecture.

So at one point in time do you think all laptops will not be runnning desktop processors?

Also most of the laptops that i have looked at that have M processors also have wifi in what intel calls centrino. What if you dont want wifi in your laptop but want an M processor?

[Ideas Man]

You shouldn't use desktop processors in a laptop anyway. The Centrino is the term for the Pentum-M, Pentium-M chipset and the WiFi. You should be able to turn it off, but dropping a feature like thiat in this day and age seems silly, bit like saying a couple of years ago, i don't want ethernet .

[Dillinger4]

Yeah but don't most non-centrino laptops run destop processors?
Also if wifi is built into the laptop what happens when a faster version comes out? Can the existing wifi be easily upgraded?

[Ideas Man]

No, nothing branded Centrino has a desktop processor, it contains the Pentium-M processor. If you want the new wireless standard, no you cannot upgrade it. You must buy an expansion card like you would any other wireless card, but it's convenient because you don't have to carry one around for the standard it supports. I know the old Centrino is 802.11b, and i think the newer, faster ones are 802.11g.