>Dana wrote:
>good point. What are the advantages of M though besides wattage and
>(obviously) wifi?

That's actually an interesting point related to Angel's point about marketing. 
Wi-Fi isn't actually on the M cpu, it's in the mobo chipset. That's Intel's 
superior marketing at work.

As far as what is superior in the Pentium M, the performance for the heat 
dissipated is phenomenal. The key in my mind would then be shrinking the die 
and going VERY low power- trying to put the M in a PDA-sized unit, for 
instance, and perhaps incorporate more features on the die or in the chipset. 
The whole strategy would be aimed at the corporate market- simplify the mobo 
architecture, reduce size - all that means lower costs both in manufacturing 
and support, which corporations love. Unless they have the killer chip 
somewhere in the wings, they have surrendered the gaming high-end to AMD and 
they are not getting it back anytime soon.

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