Tablet PCs

[srdiamond]

Does anyone know what's with the low megaherttz that the Tablet PCs sport: Pentium III processor, 867 MHz?

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

Does anyone know what's with the low megaherttz that the Tablet PCs sport:
Pentium III processor, 867 MHz?

I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you wondering why they aren't
3Ghz machines? Same reason most laptops aren't - battery life, portability
and temperature control. As a general rule processors that have faster
clock rates use more juice and run hotter -- those are bad things for a
portable device that has a limited form factor.
For a more intelligent discussion of Tablet PC design I encourage you
to visit the microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc newsgroup.

 

[krypticide]

The relatively new Toshiba M200 sports a 1.5 GHz Pentium M. The P-III
processors are available on older tabelts.

-Andy

Does anyone know what's with the low megaherttz that the Tablet PCs sport:

Pentium III processor, 867 MHz?

 

[Chris H.]

The newer Tablet PCs all run the Centrino chips. A comparison of the 1.5
GHz running in the Toshiba M200 is very close to current Pentium 2.4. I
have a gig of RAM in mine, and it runs circles around my desktop.
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Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
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[Steve Silverwood]

The relatively new Toshiba M200 sports a 1.5 GHz Pentium M. The P-III
processors are available on older tabelts.

Unfortunately, it's a Toshiba....

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Steve Silverwood]

The newer Tablet PCs all run the Centrino chips. A comparison of the 1.5
GHz running in the Toshiba M200 is very close to current Pentium 2.4. I
have a gig of RAM in mine, and it runs circles around my desktop.

Always better to throw more memory at a given system before worrying
about the CPU. RAM capacity is a bigger bottleneck than CPU speed for
all but the most processing-intensive applications. I've had results
similar to yours in many cases -- slower systems with more RAM run
faster than faster systems with less RAM. At work we've been able to
squeeze a few more months (or even years) of life out of older systems
by cramming some additional memory into them.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email: (e-mail address removed)