Pentium Vs Centrino

**Corona** · 17-01-2009

I am thinking about purchasing a notebook. Can anyone tell me what is the major difference between the Centrino vs the Pentium other than price? What type of performance differences are there that distinguish differences between the two of these?

**MrChris-** · 17-01-2009

The main difference is the Pentium has an old architecture while the Centrino has a new and much better architecture. The most useful property of the Centrino processors (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo) is their power management, so they can be used in laptops for a longer battery life (not like the Pentiums, they need too much power so they aren't suitable for laptops).

**Lillebror** · 17-01-2009

I think centrino is a marketing term which refers to an intel pentium-m, with intel wifi and an intel chipset.

**Calvin K** · 17-01-2009

I believe the Pentium m's which are 2ghz or better outperform a 3ghz or better P4 in every way. The only thing they don't have AFAIK is hyper threading. They are a dying breed P4's and should be avoided like a plague.

**Solomon** · 17-01-2009

Pentium is a processor, Centrino is not a processor at all. Surprised ? Its true

Centrino is the specification that is used when Pentium M Processor is used along with certain motherboard and if it has Wi-Fi.

**SalVatore** · 17-01-2009

Originally Posted by Corona

I am thinking about purchasing a notebook. Can anyone tell me what is the major difference between the Centrino vs the Pentium other than price? What type of performance differences are there that distinguish differences between the two of these?

Get centrino duo. Performance difference is really big and will be good enough for some years... even with conroe mobile family...centrino duo will be enough for notebook performance.

**Markesh** · 17-01-2009

I always presumed the "Centrino" was the Celeron-esque version of the P4-M processor and "P4-M" was a fully-fledged P4 processor. Guess you really do learn new things every day.

**Solomon** · 17-01-2009

Originally Posted by SalVatore

Get centrino duo. Performance difference is really big and will be good enough for some years... even with conroe mobile family...centrino duo will be enough for notebook performance.

Centrino Duo is definitely good since it has dual cores and dual cores gives 40 % extra performance than single core processors. Also Centrino is the latest technology compared to Pentium.