T43 with Alviso & Sonoma

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Cecilia76 · #1 Post by **Cecilia76** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:06 am

On the same day Intel is releasing the new Centrino platform, IBM comes out with the new T43 with Sonoma, Alviso, FSB533, etc.
Here (Italy) we have the link in the first page:

www.ibm.com/it ...> notebooks

cchsiao · #2 Post by **cchsiao** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:42 am

This is a message from another forum:

The current T43 production will be base on the 915PM North Bridge with ICH6-M South Bridge. The ICH6-M South Bridge is base on an old B2 stepping which got some PCI-E problems and other problems until C0 stepping. It is probably better to get T43 until Intel release C0 stepping of ICH6-M SB to its OEM customers. ICH6-M Specification Update PDF

After reading some people experienced problems with desktop version of 915 chipset, not sure if 915PM chipset is any better than desktop version. Perhaps we should all wait for 955 chipset which is due out Q3 2005. Maybe Intel has such a bad sale with desktop version of 925X/915P chipsets and repackage it to sell as notebook chipset. Intel/OEM makers knew too well that average consumers for notebook will not open up the notebook casing to look at the marking on 915PM chipset.

By the way, if people really want to get T43, make sure get the model with 915PM+DDR2, there is a serious bug with 915PM+DDR333 now. Though DDR2-400 is not any faster than DDR-333, so it's really a bad time to get a notebook upgrade until Intel release new 915PM stepping that will work well with DDR333 or DDR2-533. The fact that none of these current memory modules run synchronously with CPU FSB made it very hard to choose a good upgrade.

So... If the information is correct, it's really not a good time to buy a T43 now. Anybody can confirm the information?

Steve007 · #3 Post by **Steve007** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:10 am

cchsiao wrote:it's really not a good time to buy a T43 now. Anybody can confirm the information?

I can't confirm that for now but speaking off the record here, only a complete idiot would jump on something new straight away. Always wait at least a few months for any problems to surface and be ironed out.

lvlolvlo · #4 Post by **lvlolvlo** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:33 am

Steve007 wrote:
cchsiao wrote:it's really not a good time to buy a T43 now. Anybody can confirm the information?
I can't confirm that for now but speaking off the record here, only a complete idiot would jump on something new straight away. Always wait at least a few months for any problems to surface and be ironed out.

but if no one jumped no problems would be discovered. lol

mgp · #5 Post by **mgp** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:42 am

true (especially in light of Japanese consumers and the PSP). so beta-test away!

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