Hey, what's the big deal with all of the different laptop processors from intel. Why does a Pentium M at 1.8ghz cost as much as a Pentium 4 Extreem with HT at 3.4ghz? And is it true that the new AMD 64 Mobile at 2.0ghz can wip up on both of them?
It is all about marketing. This is new technology and the sellers feel that they have a salers market and can have just about any price they can come up with. The AMD 64 has th potential to woop up on any 32bit system if configured right and has a 64bit OS and as for the Pent M costing as much as the Extreem with HT, well that is becouse you do not need a router and can connect to the net anywhere. Thus it is new technology, thus more money. Funny thing is that the wireless mobile technology is 50 years old yet they are selling it as if it is new.....LOLblackecho said:Hey, what's the big deal with all of the different laptop processors from intel. Why does a Pentium M at 1.8ghz cost as much as a Pentium 4 Extreem with HT at 3.4ghz? And is it true that the new AMD 64 Mobile at 2.0ghz can wip up on both of them?
In 1954 the only wireless was an AM radio and there was no PCs or Laptops, and only 1 out of 135 families had a TV.Macadonious said:It is all about marketing. This is new technology and the sellers feel that they have a salers market and can have just about any price they can come up with. The AMD 64 has th potential to woop up on any 32bit system if configured right and has a 64bit OS and as for the Pent M costing as much as the Extreem with HT, well that is becouse you do not need a router and can connect to the net anywhere. Thus it is new technology, thus more money. Funny thing is that the wireless mobile technology is 50 years old yet they are selling it as if it is new.....LOL
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Not true. Most of the new higher Prescotts are not as fast as the lower clock speed Northwoods.Macadonious said:A 3GB processor anything will kill 1GB anything.
It IS new... for laptops. Mankind has been walking around for thousands of years, but when we walked on the moon that was new and different. Same thing here, wireless technology has been around for a long time, but laptops were not wireless, so now that they are their different. I don't see anywhere that "wireless technology" is marketed as being new. I do see "wireless laptop" technology as being new. Big differenceMacadonious said:Funny thing is that the wireless mobile technology is 50 years old yet they are selling it as if it is new
We're not comparing apples to applesMacadonious said:Quite on the contrary.........
In 1957 the US Army had a machine, similar to a laptop
In 1957 there was no satilites to uplink to. Telstar 1 the worlds first communications satilite was launched on July 10, 1962.Macadonious said:Quite on the contrary.........
In 1957 the US Army had a machine, similar to a laptop, but much bulkier that sent messages to another system via satilite up link. Submarines used this "secert" technology to spy on others and not be tracked. The system was called APRANET. This was also the first LAN in the world. So wireless technology is rather old, but it is new to the average consumer. Hell fax machines was being used in WWII.
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