1.13-GHz Pentium III vs. Centrino 1.5

[seaeric]

I am considering purchasing a new laptop to upgrade from my existing 1.13-GHz Pentium III. Is there a big performance difference between the 1.13-GHz Pentium III and Centrino 1.5 Ghz? I know the battery life is going to be better, but I am more concerned with perfomance on applications like VMWare or Video Editing.

Thanks,

Eric

 

[pIII_Man]

I beleive that there would be a major diffrence the centrino beats out some pentium 4's in the 2.4ghz range. So i would say go for it. But didn't they recall the pIII 1.13 or is this just my immagination...i dunno...

 

[ZER0]

they did recall it but since then its been rereleased. and yes the centrino is a p3 with 1mb of l2 cache, sse2, maybe a few minor changes. i'd say a 1.5 centrino would be at least like a 2ghz p4 maybe even faster.

 

[sargeduck]

In reply to the above, Intel also added a few extra pipelines, to help it achieve higher speeds.