Laptop's processor speed

[SGC]

How come most of all new laptops come with a pentium processor that less than 2.0 GH. is this a special kind of processor for laptops. How can I convert the speed of say (1.7) into the speed of normal pentium.

[Kyral]

Its a "Mobile Pentium" but beyond that I don't know

[SGC]

So that what pentium M means, Thanks.

Now I need to know how to convert those speed into the normal one.

[somuchfortheafter]

hmm well i have a pentium m 1.6ghz... it performs as well as my friends pentium 4 2.6ghz....... so i would try to guess somewhere between 1ghz and 800mhz to up the speed.... also the pentium is a much better processor for laptops...

[SGC]

hmm well i have a pentium m 1.6ghz... it performs as well as my friends pentium 4 2.6ghz....... so i would try to guess somewhere between 1ghz and 800mhz to up the speed.... also the pentium is a much better processor for laptops...
Thanks,

Does anybody else have experiences with the different between the two?

[WildTangent]

the pentium Ms are actually much more powerful than P4s, and in some cases, even the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55

this (http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050525/index.html) article explains it in better detail, with pretty graphs :)

-Wild

[SGC]

Thanks Wild

[poofyhairguy]

Pentium Ms are Pentium 3 chips with all the new technologies intel learned during the Pentium 4 days bolted on. Its the savior of Intel (whose main devs laid the egg called Itanium).

[SGC]

Pentium Ms are Pentium 3 chips with all the new technologies intel learned during the Pentium 4 days bolted on. Its the savior of Intel (whose main devs laid the egg called Itanium).
Thanks for the info