New T42 2.1 Centrino 765 Part # 2373Q1U

[e_motek]

What do you guys think is it worth the price or this TP is just as good as 2379DYU with 1.8 chip ?

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions?

[Nabeel]

Haha.

I don't think you'll see much of a difference in everyday apps.

[cakos]

is this a gay site????

[lfeagan]

cakos, what is up with the gay comment? totally random thing to say...I can't see how it relates to e_motek's post at all.

As for the 2.1 vs 1.8 GHz decision. I honestly doubt you would notice much difference. Unless you are running something which is extremely integer intensive, there wouldn't likely be much of a difference at all. Floating-point performance generally doesn't scale linearly with clock speed increases, so you wouldn't likely see a 2.1 / 1.8 = 1.166 increases in performance in that area. Games tend to have a lot of FP calculations, so they also wouldn't likely see at 16% performance increase. Also, there are all sorts of latency and other issues which would likely keep the true effective performance increase down to about 4-5% better.

Hope this helps with your decision. If it were me, I wouldn't really worry about it. But getting the fastest notebook is a cool thing.

[e_motek]

lfeagan, I have misspelled word “guys” and corrected it only after cakos posted his comment.

Sorry for the spelling errors.

[p0ser]

back on topic .. hehe.

with Intel's announced price cuts on all processors 2.0 ghz and below, will ibm reflect those changes in thinkpad pricing?

[e_motek]

Just placed my order for “765” machine, will be shipped on approx. 11/02/2004.
When I get it I will let you know the difference in speed and overall operation.

[Plinkerton]

Poser, I have been wondering about that too. I'm still within 30 days on my TP, and if it's a huge price difference, I think I would be able to return this one, and get a different one, plus a refund.