2006-07-27 09:46:16 · 5 answers · asked by Alan 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
There is actually a big difference. The Pentium 4 is a computer processor or CPU. It is the main chip that is the brains of the computer. The faster the chip the faster the computer. Centrio is a term that Intel uses for 3 features you find on a laptop. Those 3 things are: a mobile cpu (uses less power), a built in wireless card, and lighter/greater battery life of your laptop.
Bascially Intel came up with a fancy word for wireless internet, mobile cpu, and better battery life. I was confused too at first but finally found out what centrino really means.
Furthermore, the "centrino" technology uses the Pentium M processor. M=mobile not the Pentium 4.
2006-07-27 09:59:13 · answer #1 · answered by Dan J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
big69wig69: "Centrino is a p4 that did not rather" incorrect! Centrino isn't a processor in any respect, it quite is a platform. The CPU utilized in a Centrino isn't a P4 or possibly a "failed" P4. circulate do slightly prognosis in the previous making statements like that. and you have over 800 factors, I hate to make certain what solutions you have given. onandoff:"centrino is a slower p4 in comparison to different processors." incorrect! Centrino isn't a Processor, pay attention this CENTRINO isn't A CPU!!! Now back to the question. For Autocad you like a quickly CPU yet you quite desire a lot of quickly ram and a quickly HD. You present day equipment board can not improve ok because it probable makes use of a 478 socket and an older BIOS that could not renowned the thank you to handle greater moderen CPU's. What i might propose is a clean motherboard that helps twin DDR, 2GB could be extreme-high quality and a P4 2.8-3.4 CPU with a million or 2MB cache and a eighty GB or bigger SATAII HD. AMD chips have long been typical as being particularly quicker whilst it is composed of heavy math type applications so as that they is additionally worth finding at whilst it is composed of an Autocad station.
2016-12-10 15:55:41 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pentiums are for desktop PC's while Centrino are laptop processors.
2006-07-27 09:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of nanoseconds its not worth it pentium 4 is just as fast.
2006-07-27 09:50:01 · answer #4 · answered by Darth Futuza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
couple of hundred dollars
2006-07-27 09:49:32 · answer #5 · answered by Trollhair 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋