Intel Releases Faster Pentium for Notebooks
Intel Corp. on Tuesday raised the bar on Pentium 4 notebook performance with the introduction of the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 with hyperthreading technology. The chip should drive a new generation of "transportable" notebooks. Officially, the Mobile Pentium 4 replaces the Mobile Pentium 4-M, which will be phased out by the newer, higher-performance Pentium line. Although Intel Corp. is offering the latest chips at higher speeds from 2.66GHz to 3.20GHz, the processors also require substantially more power and dissipate much more thermal energy. And lead to a bigger footprint.
Intel classifies thin-and-light notebooks as "mobile" and has designed the low-power Pentium M processor to allow those notebooks to last several hours on a single charge. However, Intel calls heavier, transportable notebooks as "portable" and adapted the Mobile Pentium 4 to deliver desktop-class performance for a notebook that can be shifted from one desk to another.
