So, I pretty sure, like 90%, that the Toshiba guy is feeding my co-worker a bunch of shit...

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>My work ordered my co-worker a Toshiba laptop that had an Intel desktop 2.6 processor in it. The problem was, that particular model couldnt dock (use a docking station). It was terrible ordering by my work, but they went with a cost saving model, bought a Toshiba docking station for it, and then discovered the 2 wouldnt work together.

They returned the 2.6 laptop and bought another Toshiba that has the correct docking connections, but this one is an Intel mobile Centrino 1.5. When conerned about the speed, the Toshiba guy told the guy who orders this stuff that the mobile 1.5 is just as fast as a desktop 2.6.

What the heck? I know an AMD running at a slower speed can be just as fast as Intels, but wouldnt you think that within Intel the speed matters? Mobile processors are smaller, generate less heat, and are less loud... doesnt all this stuff effect speed, hence the smaller number tagged onto it? Isnt that the point of having a desktop processor in a desktop? To have faster speed? If the Centrino was just as good, it would seem to me that the upper end desktops would have Centrino's in them to generate less heat and noise, but they dont.

I cant believe the order guy swallowed that. Regardless, its a nice laptop and it will work for our purposes just fine, I just thought it was an odd thing for the Toshiba guy to say.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>yeah, he's feeding you shit. Centrino is just a chip designed for power-saving features of a laptop, it's not more powerful or else it'd be used in desktops too</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.intel.com/products/mobiletec ... ntrino&</a>

From what Ive heard, Centrino is just a label for a laptop that has certain features making it mobile. Built in wireless, etc, etc. Centrino is not a processor</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I looked that up too, but I think Flip's point still stands. However, I doubt that whoever it is who uses the laptop would notice the difference.</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>I was concuring with Flip. Just pointing out that the only difference in a Centrino laptop and a non Centrino laptop is just different features.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>yeah, Centrino is really only the Pentium-M processor and a built in wireless ethernet card. I had known that much.</div>