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    can someone explain the dothan-P4 issue?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by horus7, Sep 18, 2004.

  1. horus7

    horus7 Newbie

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    Hi

    Im just about to buy my first laptop and im pretty much decided on the L5000GX for the P$ 3,2 processor and 128mb radeon. The thing is, a while back it was just the matter of centrino vs P4 or battery life vs cpu power. Now comes the dothan thing.
    Baring in mind that im not a laptop processor specialist, can someone explain me if the P4 is still worth it for the power or will i do better with a dothan processor?
    Thanks
     
    horus7, Sep 18, 2004
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    flaxx Notebook Evangelist

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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by horus7
     
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    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    That's not 100% true. The Dothan CPU's are better in certain areas like Business applications, but is slower when it comes to content creation (eg. video/audio encoding). With the capabilities the Pentium M (Dothan) CPU's can provide, they definitely give P4 CPU's a run for their money.

    Here's a link to a speed comparison between P4, AMD64, Pentium M (Banias & Dothan) & Celeron M CPU's.

    http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2129&p=1

    So, for the performance that Dothan CPU's offer, especially with all their benefits (Runs cooler, better battery life, smaller/lighter units), it's definitely a good choice to go for.

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Sep 19, 2004
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