Laptop Question

I'm currently looking around for a laptop to buy and i've noticed that the maximum CPU speed i can find is around 2.2Ghz, why is this? I remember laptops about a year ago offering 3.2 GHz chip speeds, so why can't I see any powerful notebooks for sale anymore?

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Review: http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Dell_In...2.html?tag=nav

Release date: 6/11/03

Compare that to the laptops available today

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hmm, I have no experience with duel core processors. Would a duel core 2Ghz processor be the equivilent of a 4GHz processor?

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Hmm, ok.

Given the choice between the Intel duel core Centrino processor and the AMD Turion 64 Processor which one would be better for gaming?

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Thanks for all the input guys, I'm taking a software engineering degree in September and I want a laptop that will allow me to play CS:S (among other things) across campus >_>

Do any of you have any reccomendations of any models that I should take a look at?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by RushJet1

the actual reason you were seeing speeds of 3.2ghz last year and now you see 2.2 is that the processors intel is using in general have changed. the 3.2ghz chips are regular pentium 4s, and the 2.2ghz chips are the pentium-m "centrino" chips. the pentium-m is a lot more power efficient and is more like the athlon 64 performance-wise. a 2.2ghz pentium-m performs much like a 3-ghz p4 (unless you're doing encoding, that is-- a p4 will nearly always win with raw power tests).

the new lower-ghz processors aren't necessarily "much more powerful," heck, they're about the same or maybe slightly more powerful, but per-watt performance is much better and the performance at the same clock speed would be quite a lot better due to efficiency.

So basicly what you're saying is a 2.2Ghz Pentium Core Duo will be as fast as regular 3Ghz Pentium 4?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Pretty much a Money no object thing, but i'm not paying over the odds for an Alienware Laptop if that's what you were going to suggest :P

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