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    R There any Centrinoish things for Apple

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Ballin4life, Dec 30, 2004.

  1. Ballin4life

    Ballin4life Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm just wondering, is there any Apple equivelant of Centrino...I used to be an all out Apple user but that was wayyyyy back, like around the os9 and back times, so I don't know.
     
    Ballin4life, Dec 30, 2004
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    not sure what you mean by this question. Centrino is simply a marketing word from Intel that means there's a Pentium M and Intel branded wireless card inside a notebook. So there's certainly no Pentium M offering for an Apple notebook, but Apple does of course use its own energy efficient chips (well, not its own, but rather made by IBM) and offers internal wireless in all of its notebooks.
     
    Andrew Baxter, Dec 31, 2004
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    YSX Type-S Notebook Enthusiast

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    Actually, Apple's energy-efficient G4 chips are made by Freescale, spun off from Motorola. IBM only makes the G5, which is superhot. The G4 chip's watt/voltage-consumption is a small fraction of what desktop Pentium chips use. That's why Intel made Pentium-M, powerful architecture in low clock speeds. Centrino is their further effort to optimize power-usage by unifying their own hardware (CPU + WiFi) with their own software....basically, what Apple has been doing for ages w/ the Apple-IBM-Motorola-designed G3/G4 series and AirPort. Copycats. ^__^
     
    YSX Type-S, Dec 31, 2004
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  4. Ballin4life

    Ballin4life Notebook Evangelist

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    well yea, i know about all that PM and 2200 stuff [ :p], but i was just wondering if apple had their own stuff like that...but nvm i think i answered my own question, with all the stuff posted here, thanks...
     
    Ballin4life, Dec 31, 2004
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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by abaxter
     
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    Well no; there isnt' anything "Centrinoish" like. Unless one day Apple desides to make it's own wireless adapters. Because, Centrino just means basically:

    1. Pentium M processor
    2. Intel Pro Wireless

    Built into the same system. They just made that word so you would know if you got The Penitum M and Inte's wireless built-in.

    Windows - The operating system that runs the world.

    Toshiba - Quality, price, and features!
     
    TOSHIBAm35x, Jan 3, 2005
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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'> Originally posted by TOSHIBAm35x
     
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    I believe that the Airport cards use an internal PCMCIA slot, nothing proprietary.
     
    Doug McCloud, Jan 14, 2005
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