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Vaio: Pentium 4 or Centrino?

rubidj 2:38 PM - 28 September, 2004
Hello friends:
I go to change my Acer Aspire 1310 (Athlon xp 1800) for a new Sony Vaio.
What processord do you recommend to me?

Intel Pentium 4 2.8ghz or Intel Centrino Pentium Movile 1.6Ghz. ?

The rest of components of the laptop are the same.

Pentium Movile has a cost of 300 eur (near 400$) more than Pentium 4.

What do you recommend?

Thank's.
lancota 3:55 PM - 28 September, 2004
Go with the P4, unless you need some super powermanagment for your system and long battery life. Centrino's are slower, and do weird things when they shovel data through to try and conserve as much power as possible. A P4 is a desktop processor and will out perform. Plus you'll save some money ;)
nik39 4:26 PM - 28 September, 2004
But you might run into heating problems, right? I got a DELL P4 desktop CPU at 2.4GHz and I only need to browser, and bang... the fan goes on. So I assume a lot of heat is produced by that (desktop) CPU.
DjM 5:19 PM - 28 September, 2004
I think P4HT 2.8G perfect for SSL...
I have p4HT 3.0G Buffer size at 5 Cpu used 10/20%
bartaug 5:45 PM - 28 September, 2004
I run SSL together with Ableton Live 4 on a 2.8G P4
rubidj 6:43 PM - 28 September, 2004
A lot of thank's for your advices..
Anybody running ssl in a Centrino?
radish 9:34 PM - 28 September, 2004
Yup, I got a 1.6ghz centrino and it works just fine. Plus, my laptop is a hell of a lot smaller and lighter than a P4 based one, which is important to me. 13.5" screen, 4lbs including battery and DVD drive :) Oh, and 4 hours battery life.
rubidj 10:15 PM - 28 September, 2004
Thanks radish for your reply
J-BRAVO 2:07 AM - 29 September, 2004
AMD 64, heavy but good.
DjM 3:36 AM - 29 September, 2004
Radish plz give me your buffer size for work and your CPU usage when u mix with centrino ???
radish 4:37 AM - 29 September, 2004
I usually have it on 5 (I'm not a scratcher) and the cpu usually stays around 50%. No drouputs unless something is happening in the background (like the antivirus updating!).
DjM 1:26 PM - 29 September, 2004
Ok thanks :)
namron 6:44 PM - 29 September, 2004
i preffer the p4 mobile.. cause i have one and it runs and runs ...
usb buffer on 3 , cpu usage ~ 15 - 30 %

pce
namron 6:45 PM - 29 September, 2004
and notebooks with the p4 mobile are cheaper and faster than the expensive centrino ones ..
rubidj 8:29 PM - 29 September, 2004
A lot of thank's to all for your answers.
I will buy the P4.

Thank's
namron 8:56 PM - 29 September, 2004
P4 mobile! :D
namron 8:58 PM - 29 September, 2004
and don't forget to look after a notebook of a well known company like toshiba or something else.. NO noname (cheap) products.

greets
rubidj 9:27 PM - 29 September, 2004
I have bought a Sony Vaio.
radish 11:09 PM - 29 September, 2004
ouch...