Pentium 4-M chills out in notebooks
News The new P4 includes 55 million transistors, a good 25 percent more than the PIII-M, and includes a range of features designed to protect battery life while delivering what Intel claims is a 43 percent performance increase over the PIII-M.
[March 4, 2002, 13:03]
Chris Long's Column: Supermarket high-tech
News It too was a PIII. A machine that enabled me to wander up the pub and say to my friends, "I have a PIII doncha know. I thought, I spent just about double that on my heavy duty PIII machine. By my calculations Intel must have PAID Fujitsu to take...
[August 27, 1999, 10:23]
Windows Longhorn: more details emerge
Talkback But I'm jusing OS 10.3 on a laptop with a 450MHz G3 Processor (roughly comparable with a PIII at 800), 320MB RAM, 6GB (yes, that's six Gig) HD and 8MB Videomemory. Tell you what: I'm a Mac-User (big surprise, you'll say and stop reading).
[January 15, 2005, 7:42]
Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
Talkback At home I have a 850 Mhz PIII with 384 MB of RAM. All I'm using now is Suse. I'm not sure if I would have made a change if I hadn't been forced to though cause of my job. If people think making the switch is difficult then that means M...
[November 14, 2005, 14:56]
Intel grapples with Pentium supplies
News I'm not saying we have vast quantities [of the 1GHz PIII], but we can meet top-end demand," said Dell desktop product manager Stephen Duignan. Dell, which uses Intel as its exclusive chip supplier, and which is often the manufacturer to get Intel...
[March 31, 2000, 16:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News W2K will need a 300MHz PIII and 128MB, no matter what anyone says. It is a good sign of a monopoly that the quality of the product goes down -- I suppose it's all down to decoupling from the neo-Darwinist imperative or as Fat Boy Slim would have it...
[November 14, 1999, 18:44]
I will blog, despite Vista's best efforts
Blog I had several thoughts that I imagined might be interesting to share: about how, despite all the advances that have generated all the product upgrades from the 'Wintel' duopoly, I have this week discovered that an eight-year old Toshiba laptop...
[March 20, 2008, 20:56]
Find it fast: desktop search programs
Talkback It's blisteringly quick even on my 700Mhz PIII. This software is already once of the most valuable on my system and I’m quite sure that it will be the benchmark for other products! I sorely missed Altavista Discovery when it was withdrawn and...
[October 20, 2004, 7:54]
Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog The 6.06 computer is an ancient Compaq Armada with a 500 MHz PIII, a smear of memory, a shagged battery, and an unusually large hard disk that got transplanted in from a dead Windows laptop. Well, not at this precise moment (just three, as it...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
D-Day for Intel's Pentium III
News New PIII desktops, notebooks Potential customers should expect to see new desktops from major vendors, including Dell Computer, IBM, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard. Intel, which had been battling Advanced Micro Devices for the low-end PC market, is now...
[October 25, 1999, 15:06]
Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 review
Reviews Performance is no more than so-so for a 1GHz Mobile PIII-M, as can be seen from the overall Winstone result of 27.2. The CPU is a Mobile Pentium III Processor-M with the latest power saving technology and 512KB of on-die Level 2 cache compared to...
[February 12, 2002, 23:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog W2K will need a 300MHz PIII and 128MB, no matter what anyone says. It is a good sign of a monopoly that the quality of the product goes down -- I suppose it's all down to decoupling from the neo-Darwinist imperative or as Fat Boy Slim would have it...
[November 14, 1999, 18:44]
Chris Long's Column: Cut the virtual insanity
News With a big name and perhaps with some good looking kit (PIII and V90 modem minimum), I'm sure this will be a blockbuster. Sorry to disturb you, but this is very important and I think you can help me -- and yourself.
[February 9, 1999, 9:29]
Merced: Intel's 64 bit revolution
News At the moment, all of the Intel processors we use (PII, PIII, Celeron, Xeon etc.are based on Intel's 32-bit processor architecture, that is IA-32. For this reason, existing chip packaging and connectors, such as Slot 1, or Socket 370 will not be...
[March 16, 1999, 16:23]
First tests: Mobile P4 slower than PIII?
News The MP4-M is the first 'official' Pentium 4 processor for notebooks, although several manufacturers, including Hi-Grade, have recently released portable systems using the desktop version of the Pentium 4.
[March 5, 2002, 17:48]
