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Posted by Dan on December 10, 2004, 4:42 am
Please log in for more thread options Mobile P3 are about 30% faster than a mobile pentium 4. Therefore a 1Ghz
P3-M usually ends up outperforming a 1.3Ghz P4-M. My mom uses an evo n600
for work. It is very well built and a good all around machine.
>I had a T21, and my roommate has a T30. Go for the T23. It gets better
> battery life, similar performance, and puts out less heat than the T30.
> It's also 0.2" thinner (trust me--you'll notice that the T30 is thicker
> coming from the T20). Just make sure you have a fresh battery.
> Remember, the PIII-M (Tualatin) is the direct predecessor of the
> current Banias/Dothan Pentium M (obviously there's a lot of new stuff
> on the P-M vs. the PIII-M, but the Intel Israel guys started with the
> PIII-M design and added to it to to get to the P-M). It's not a bad
> processor at all for mobile applications and the 1.2 ghz PIII-M
> probably has similar performance to the 1.6-1.8 ghz PIV.
>
>> Any way. I am considering a T30 with the 400mhz bus, faster RAM, and
> P4m.
>> But not sure if its as reliable as the T23 P3m. I NEED an onboard
> serail
>> port as USB and PCMCIA cards dont work well with the utilities I use
> for
>> work connecting to equipment. I here the P3m is very stable, but can
> find
>> enough information to convince me the P4m is a great improvement.
>> Are there any IBM guru's out there who can guide me?
>
> Another option is the Compaq Evo n600c. Traded in my sxga+ t21 for a
> refurbished sxga+ n600c (1.2 ghz pIII-m) two years ago and it's worked
> like a champ. The speakers aren't very good even compared to the crappy
> ones on the T, but otherwise it's directly comparable to the T series
> (it's actually even a bit lighter/smaller/cheaper). Both the T series
> and the Evo are very solidly built from my experience.
>
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