Intel brings out low-cost laptop chips
Posted by malebolgia on 06 January 2004 - 05:52 · 2 comments & 374 views
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#1 Posted by Gary_Player on 06 Jan 2004 - 19:19
- My girlfriend has a mobile celeron 1.2 ghz in her laptop and its the sorriest piece of crap i've ever had the misfortune to come in contact with. The stupid thing cant even decode MP3s in realtime, DivX is impossible and EVERYTHING lags worse than my old desktop celeron 466 does...stupid laptop has more ram than the desktop AND its faster ram too, theres no excuse for that!
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#2 Posted by WitCh-Fire on 06 Jan 2004 - 20:42
- The Celeron 1.2 is nearly 2 generations ago, at least give the corporate mongers a chance at your money.
The Celeron M is a discount version of the Pentium M processor, which came out last March. The new chip is based around the same processor core, but comes with a 512KB secondary cache and runs at slower speeds, Intel said Monday. Last year, company executives said a budget version of Celeron would come in early 2004. Pentium Ms come with a 1MB cache, and a new version of the Pentium M, code-named Dothan, that is due to debut in February will have a 2MB cache. Later, Dothan will be complemented by an improved chipset for better data throughput. Generally, larger caches and new chipsets (bundles of chips that support processors) are added to increase performance.
Like the Pentium M, the Celeron M will contain features designed to cut down on energy consumption--a key consideration for wireless notebooks--but it won't have as many. The Celeron M, for example, doesn't include Intel's SpeedStep technology, which allows the processor to slow down and conserve energy when a computer is running on batteries. The new chip family should help Intel pursue its strategy of making Wi-Fi more popular in retail. In Japan and Europe, consumers have already begun to gravitate toward smaller, lighter notebooks with wireless functionality. In the United States, however, consumers still favor large, often heavy notebooks with desktop-class processors. Typically, U.S. consumers picking up wireless laptops are experienced buyers on their second or third notebook, according to analysts.
"Over the holiday period, people may have been sending emails to relatives overseas or logging on to websites," said Vanessa Evans, sales and marketing manager at Linx.
"There were probably also many people using Christmas gifts such as internet-based games for the first time."
The Christmas build-up also showed a marked increase in internet traffic. Linx figures showed that, while traffic levels had remained relatively static over the summer months, in November and December it surged.
Of course, not all of the increase can be attributed to people emailing and buying online.
"It partly reflects the increasing amount of automated internet traffic which continues regardless of the holiday," said Evans.