"Benjamin Gawert" <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Martin 53N 1W wrote:

The Centrino is a _lot_ better than the P4.

Well, the Pentium-M is better at the same clock rate than the P4. Centrino
is _not_ a CPU, Centrino is the name for the combination of Pentium-M CPU,
intel chipset and intel WLAN...

Don't know if it is twice
the performance though. For some tasks, it might be!

A rough estimation is that a P-M is ~1.6x the performance of a P4 with

same

clock speed. That means a P-M 1.5GHz is _around_ the same performance than

a

P4 2.4GHz. For some applications (i.e. floating point) and for most games
the P4 is faster.

Benjamin

I have just finish my 1st unit on my Centrino 1.5GHz, 1M L2 cache
The time it take is 3hr 17min 22.0 sec.