Then I guess Intel's mobile division has always been drunk. Never really cared about mobile CPUs. Also, old Atoms suck anyway. The Core M CPUs are 2/4 and go up to 2.9 GHz, and with Broadwell they should be pretty good. Quite impressive for a 4.5W TDP really.
So there is an old Atom CPU that can run on 0.65W. It probably really sucks (0.8 GHz, single core), but technically you can power it with a potato. Assuming the chipset requires only 0.35W, of course. - - - Updated - - - Many ultrabooks have been doing this with Haswell CPUs, so yeah. I wonder if desktop Broadwell will be cool enough for Intel's cooler to work? Probably not.
almost made a joke about how you probably should get an aftermarket heatsink instead of the stock intel heatsink, hehehehe
i3 has a shallower pipeline than i5 and doesn't support turbo. Mobile i7 has more cache and does come in quad core variants, its external buses are also faster.
They should call them m3/m5/m7 or something like that. It doesn't make sense to have two identical model naming systems that mean completely different stuff.
Same I wrote applies to desktop parts too actually. Make perfect sense to me, mobile models are suffixed in an m anyway.
well, most mobile i7 cpu's generally end in some sort of strange letter combo for example: i7-4700MQ or i7-4710HQ or i7-4930MX
I recently upgraded the motherboard in my ultrabook from one with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo to one with a 2.6 and some other things. CPU-wise the upgrade was completely pointless since the 2.4 could dual-IDA up to 2.6GHz and the 2.6 can't do dual-IDA without crashing for some reason. The 2.4 ran at a slightly lower voltage too.
so, anyone good with wifi adapters? i have this old compaq presario SR1103WM that we got just a few months before we moved where we currently live (got it in 2004, 2005, we moved in 2005,2006) specs are stock (i THOUGHT the ram was upgraded, turns out it's still stock) but anyway, i'm trying to get a patriot memory pcusbw1150 wifi adapter to work on it, drivers are installed and everything, however it doesn't seem to detect any wifi networks (and it's not the adapter, already tried a different one, as well as tried the patriot on another PC) and i already tested using both the windows xp (home edition) wi-fi management, and using the software the drivers come with (which is realtek usb 11n wifi utilities or something like that) any idea's as to why it can't see any wifi networks whatsoever?
yes, in fact it even works in an OLDER pc (a Toshiba satellite to be slightly more specific) running the same OS (so no blaming XP isn't an option) currently going to see if having service packs (it for some reason doesn't have them, so might as well get them) fixes the problem
Am I the only person on these forums that disliked XP? Bluetooth, was always a pita, wifi, was always a pita, most importantly was absolutely fuck ugly
Bluetooth, eh. WiFi, never really had a problem with WiFi apart from on my old desktop. Ugly? Try a different theme bruh.
XP was a great OS for its time, but it's very outdated and anyone who says it's better than 7/8 is a moron. And yes, it was easily the ugliest Windows ever. Still better than OSX.
i have never had a single pc with bluetooth, still don't either, the only bluetooth stuff i have is my phone, so couldn't say anything about ixp and bluetooth i am typing this from that compaq though, as i did manage to get wifi working perfectly, and have never had a problem with wifi on XP other then this PC (which the problem was just that it was pure XP without a service pack, just installing SP2 got wifi working problem free) next thing i need to do, see if that ram my parents have in the laundry room is the right type, and is more then 256MB of ram, because 256MB can get used up pretty fast with how much resources websites use these days (also because IE8 sucks, but firefox is laggy as shit because of ram limits) as for looks, i always liked the looks of XP, in fact in some ways i like XP's theme system over the windows vista+ aero stuff, because i could change things other then colors, for example i can make it look 3d using media center theme, or i can get a software such as styler and get all sorts of neat commuinty made themes (some of them can even make XP look like vista, 7, and possibly 8 (i haven't used styler in a long time htough, so no idea if anyone has made a windows 8/8.1 styled theme)) - - - Updated - - - oh, i found out something interesting about the cpu on the compaq... it's a netburst cpu so umm, can someone tell me what exactly is so bad about it?
Nothing really, just overboosted pipelines and overclocked FPUs equal heat and power consumption through the roof. But the Old Dell soldiers on mercilessly.
NetBurst was easily the worst CPU architecture Intel ever made. It was made for high clock numbers, which it achieved easily, but at the cost of terrible power/heat efficiency and a very low instruction/clock ratio. A 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon would easily outperform a 3GHz Pentium 4, all while running cooler and on less power. Intel realised their mistake, and the Core architecture was based on high efficiency and instructions per clock. This is the reason why Core 2 CPUs were much lower clocked than Pentium 4/D CPUs.