w3j and v6j question

Both laptops seem pretty incredible machines but I find them with a bit of lack in processor speed with only 1.66 Ghz. Are these machines going to have more powerfull processors in a near future?

 

I might be wrong, but I bet the 1.66 duo is faster than the 1.7 Pentium M. I doubt they should be compared side-by-side - just like the P4 and Pentium M shouldn't.

 

a 1.6 duo out performs a 2.13 ghz pentium M. at least in the pie calculation and certain benchmarks.

 

It out performs it, but is that because of changes that have allowed the 1.6 to perform like the 2.13 or is that because of the dual core?

 

Its just a more efficient design and because of the dual core. and in a sytem like the V6J its a benifit because lower heat and better battery life.

 

I currently have a 1.5 Ghz PM Banias (sp?) How do you think the 1.66 in the W3j would compare? After several revisions and the dual core, will it be an out of this world difference, or will it just be a little quicker?

 

Are you maxing that 1.5ghz out now? I'm going to venture to say you're not... Personally, after seeing the differences and doing my own testing... unless you've already gotten to a point and have software that will use it... you won't see much of a difference in real life..... you may think you do.. but a lot of it might just be mental... don't jump on it just because of the cpu.

 

but are these laptops going to have faster processors?

 

its a hard thing to say. most the time our laptops are running at 800mhz to save power. So u wont notice then. but if you are running the pc full speed and using heaving photo shop and encoding different things. yes the 1.6 will blow your 1.5 out of the water. But just using out laptops for every day things you wont notice much. but the 1.66 will run much better than a single core 1.8

 

Super pi is a single threaded benchmark so it only takes advantage of one core. But even with just 1 core the 2.0 ghz core duos are getting around 1 min 16 secs while the old 2.0 ghz Pent M's would get around ~1 min 30 secs so there is definitely a speed increase. I really don't think that the processor is going to be the bottleneck in any system bought today; they are just too fast right now and other things like RAM and the hard drive need to catch up.

 

I'm intersted on gaming basically and heavy design programs, so I would really want a faster core duo like most new notebooks offer, the 2.00Ghz, otherwise a single core 780m processor could beat the 1.66Ghz core duo, so there would't be a real advantage besides multy tasking.

 

I'm looking at the W3J with similar questions in mind. I like the inclusion of the X1600 video card, and know that some games can be more processor-intensive - will the 2.0 Duo trounce the 1.66, or will there be modest gains that won't truly affect performance?