intel centrino Are there any whizzkids on here who know much about the Intel Centrino technology? Is it actually up and running yet? Can you use it anywhere? Or is it likely to be annoying like mobile phone reception?
Re: intel centrino its jus wireless connection really mate. its available wherever there are transmitters... most airports trans r gettin it (sum1 from work has contract to do gner for eg..) your more business orientated hotels have it.. and of course can use it at home if u have wireless kit..
too much radiation entering my head... i think i need a tin foil hat to protect my brain waves. what with WiFi, bluetooth and centrino; g3, mobiles and dect phones, satellite and microware tv reception... it's all bound to be cooking my brain.
yeah it's the mobile one, with the wireless gubbins built in. or something. u can tell i'm a professional. all the technical terms i use.
I pretty sure they are way faster than a P4 of the same clock speed, I'm sure i've read that Intel will eventually ditch P4 and use the pent M for desktops, servers the lot. BAck on topic, my parents have got a wireless network at home, it's just quite nice to be able to use a laptop anywhere in the house (or garden).
The only thing a centrino "is" - is a laptop pc that uses a pentium M processor, wireless lan and intels chipset. They arent different processors, just a word to describe a laptop that offers a certain combination of hardware - which to the average consumer offers them the piece of mind that their pc conforms to the latest standards (as intel define them)
your right about intel if you think there will be cpu speeds of 5ghz next year, you can forget it. Rather than speed, Intel and IBM etc are concentrating more on performance. Making things smaller and give off less heat.
Centrino is just the processor isnt it? My mate has centrino, but you still need a seperate wireless card. It's just alot more efficnent and lasts loads longer. I read that the point of it is to allow ultimate mobility, as it uses less battery.....but you still need wireless card etc etc
read my post... centrino isnt a processor, its a name laptop manufacturers are allowed to use when they combine intels cpu/chipset/wlan
lol i did read it, but now i see what you meant! Seems strange though that you don't see Pentium M on the stickers that they put on the laptop, thats why I assumed it was a processor
