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Intel Pentium M Processor 730 (1.6Ghz) versus Intel Mobile Pentium 4 Processor 538 (3.2Ghz)?? T. T. 03-09-2006
Posted by T. T. on March 9, 2006, 2:01 pm
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 Hi all:

I was in the market for a new notebook PC and I was in local CompUSA
the other day. I found that these two models has very similar price:

Toshiba Satellite M45-S265 Notebook
* 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
* Intel Pentium M Processor 730 1.6Ghz
* 512MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
* 100GB Hard Drive
* 6.0 lbs
* Priced at $949.98

Toshiba Satellite A75-S1253 Notebook
* 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
* Intel Mobile Pentium 4 Processor 538 3.2Ghz
* 256MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
* 60GB Hard Drive
* 8.0 lbs
* Priced at $999.98

My question is, how would the two CPU's performance compare to each
other, could we just trust the Ghz for the speed?? I don't mind the
extra two pounds of weight of A75, but I want to make sure that the A75
would truly outperform M45 in terms of speed and graphics... Any review
or benchmark for these two CPUs?? How would they compare to each
other??

I'm looking for a laptop maybe more for a "desktop replacement" that
still have enough juice to drive some of the DirectX 9.0 3D Games,
might want to use it as a PVR (like Tivo), a little bit video editing
and buring to DVD, browse the Web, word processing and PowerPoint
presentation, and PHP+MySQL programming, with reasonable price
(hopefully under $1500)... which laptop (including the above two but
NOT limited to) would you recommend for this kind of purpose??

Thanks!


Posted by Quaoar on March 9, 2006, 5:32 pm
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 T. T. wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I was in the market for a new notebook PC and I was in local CompUSA
> the other day. I found that these two models has very similar price:
>
> Toshiba Satellite M45-S265 Notebook
> * 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
> * Intel Pentium M Processor 730 1.6Ghz
> * 512MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
> * 100GB Hard Drive
> * 6.0 lbs
> * Priced at $949.98
>
> Toshiba Satellite A75-S1253 Notebook
> * 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
> * Intel Mobile Pentium 4 Processor 538 3.2Ghz
> * 256MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
> * 60GB Hard Drive
> * 8.0 lbs
> * Priced at $999.98
>
> My question is, how would the two CPU's performance compare to each
> other, could we just trust the Ghz for the speed?? I don't mind the
> extra two pounds of weight of A75, but I want to make sure that the A75
> would truly outperform M45 in terms of speed and graphics... Any review
> or benchmark for these two CPUs?? How would they compare to each
> other??
>
> I'm looking for a laptop maybe more for a "desktop replacement" that
> still have enough juice to drive some of the DirectX 9.0 3D Games,
> might want to use it as a PVR (like Tivo), a little bit video editing
> and buring to DVD, browse the Web, word processing and PowerPoint
> presentation, and PHP+MySQL programming, with reasonable price
> (hopefully under $1500)... which laptop (including the above two but
> NOT limited to) would you recommend for this kind of purpose??
>
> Thanks!
>

The Pentium M rated speed in Ghz x 2 is somewhat the same performance as
a Pentium 4 running at its Ghz. The Pentium M is overall a far better
choice since it is more efficient (battery life is far superior), runs
cooler (P4 fan is *always on*), and has directionally the same
performance as a P4 as indicated above. Go with the Pentium M and don't
look back.

Q

Posted by Woody on March 9, 2006, 6:09 pm
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You are expecting too much out of a laptop. With all the desires you listed
build a desktop with massive hard drive and memory and use the laptop as a
slave....


> T. T. wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I was in the market for a new notebook PC and I was in local CompUSA
>> the other day. I found that these two models has very similar price:
>>
>> Toshiba Satellite M45-S265 Notebook
>> * 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
>> * Intel Pentium M Processor 730 1.6Ghz
>> * 512MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
>> * 100GB Hard Drive
>> * 6.0 lbs
>> * Priced at $949.98
>>
>> Toshiba Satellite A75-S1253 Notebook
>> * 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
>> * Intel Mobile Pentium 4 Processor 538 3.2Ghz
>> * 256MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
>> * 60GB Hard Drive
>> * 8.0 lbs
>> * Priced at $999.98
>>
>> My question is, how would the two CPU's performance compare to each
>> other, could we just trust the Ghz for the speed?? I don't mind the
>> extra two pounds of weight of A75, but I want to make sure that the A75
>> would truly outperform M45 in terms of speed and graphics... Any review
>> or benchmark for these two CPUs?? How would they compare to each
>> other??
>>
>> I'm looking for a laptop maybe more for a "desktop replacement" that
>> still have enough juice to drive some of the DirectX 9.0 3D Games,
>> might want to use it as a PVR (like Tivo), a little bit video editing
>> and buring to DVD, browse the Web, word processing and PowerPoint
>> presentation, and PHP+MySQL programming, with reasonable price
>> (hopefully under $1500)... which laptop (including the above two but
>> NOT limited to) would you recommend for this kind of purpose??
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> The Pentium M rated speed in Ghz x 2 is somewhat the same performance as a
> Pentium 4 running at its Ghz. The Pentium M is overall a far better choice
> since it is more efficient (battery life is far superior), runs cooler (P4
> fan is *always on*), and has directionally the same performance as a P4 as
> indicated above. Go with the Pentium M and don't look back.
>
> Q



Posted by J. Clarke on March 9, 2006, 7:29 pm
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T. T. wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I was in the market for a new notebook PC and I was in local CompUSA
> the other day. I found that these two models has very similar price:
>
> Toshiba Satellite M45-S265 Notebook
> * 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
> * Intel Pentium M Processor 730 1.6Ghz
> * 512MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
> * 100GB Hard Drive
> * 6.0 lbs
> * Priced at $949.98
>
> Toshiba Satellite A75-S1253 Notebook
> * 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
> * Intel Mobile Pentium 4 Processor 538 3.2Ghz
> * 256MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
> * 60GB Hard Drive
> * 8.0 lbs
> * Priced at $999.98
>
> My question is, how would the two CPU's performance compare to each
> other, could we just trust the Ghz for the speed??

No. Pentium M has about the same performance for _most_, not _all_ tasks as
a much faster P4. For general use the extra 256 MB of RAM in the Pentium M
machine you list is likely to make more difference than the clock speed.

> I don't mind the
> extra two pounds of weight of A75, but I want to make sure that the A75
> would truly outperform M45 in terms of speed and graphics... Any review
> or benchmark for these two CPUs?? How would they compare to each
> other??

You don't say what video chip is in either of those--it looks like the
M45-S265 has Intel integrated graphics and the A75-S1253 had integrated
Radeon 9000, both of which are bottom of the line, if you want graphics
performance neither of these is a good choice.

> I'm looking for a laptop maybe more for a "desktop replacement" that
> still have enough juice to drive some of the DirectX 9.0 3D Games,
> might want to use it as a PVR (like Tivo), a little bit video editing
> and buring to DVD, browse the Web, word processing and PowerPoint
> presentation, and PHP+MySQL programming, with reasonable price
> (hopefully under $1500)... which laptop (including the above two but
> NOT limited to) would you recommend for this kind of purpose??

Go by Best Buy and look at the AMD64 Gateways (you won't find them on the
Gateway site for some reason--they're sold by the part of Gateway that used
to be eMachines and the marketing seems to be handled separately). I have
one bought over a year ago that does all that you ask. The equivalent
model right now is 800 bucks or for 1300 you can get one with faster video,
a bigger disk, and a gig of RAM. Friend of mine has been carrying the same
model back and forth to college and around campus and whatnot since fall of
2004 and it hasn't given her any trouble. Support other than warranty
repairs (which neither of us has ever needed) is virtually nonexistent but
it's made from fairly standard bits so drivers can be had easily.

Also the Gateways are now coming with MCE 2K5, so all you need to add to get
your PVR functionality is a tuner--the Hauppauge PVR-USB2 MCE works fine
with it and has an MCE compatible remote--note that both Toshibas come with
XP Home so with them you'd also need additional software for the PVR
function if you want it to be really satisfactory.

> Thanks!

--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

Posted by Dan on March 10, 2006, 4:36 am
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doesn't the A75 have an integrated video card?
> Hi all:
>
> I was in the market for a new notebook PC and I was in local CompUSA
> the other day. I found that these two models has very similar price:
>
> Toshiba Satellite M45-S265 Notebook
> * 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
> * Intel Pentium M Processor 730 1.6Ghz
> * 512MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
> * 100GB Hard Drive
> * 6.0 lbs
> * Priced at $949.98
>
> Toshiba Satellite A75-S1253 Notebook
> * 15.4 in 1280 x 800 Screen
> * Intel Mobile Pentium 4 Processor 538 3.2Ghz
> * 256MB DDR-SDRAM RAM
> * 60GB Hard Drive
> * 8.0 lbs
> * Priced at $999.98
>
> My question is, how would the two CPU's performance compare to each
> other, could we just trust the Ghz for the speed?? I don't mind the
> extra two pounds of weight of A75, but I want to make sure that the A75
> would truly outperform M45 in terms of speed and graphics... Any review
> or benchmark for these two CPUs?? How would they compare to each
> other??
>
> I'm looking for a laptop maybe more for a "desktop replacement" that
> still have enough juice to drive some of the DirectX 9.0 3D Games,
> might want to use it as a PVR (like Tivo), a little bit video editing
> and buring to DVD, browse the Web, word processing and PowerPoint
> presentation, and PHP+MySQL programming, with reasonable price
> (hopefully under $1500)... which laptop (including the above two but
> NOT limited to) would you recommend for this kind of purpose??
>
> Thanks!
>



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