Re: [Thinkpad] Re: Today's commercial announcement - T40 for sale

Yes, I looked that up and you are correct. Same exact chip, different
designation
----- Original Message -----
From: "James H. E. Maugham" <James.H.Maugham@verizon.net>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>; "Vicky Lamburn"
<victoria@sunshinesista.fsworld.co.uk>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] Re: Today's commercial announcement - T40 for sale

> thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org <mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org> wrote:
> > It is a "Pentium M 1.3 ghz", which I assume is a Centrino and
upgradeable -
> > I think the T40 line is Centrino.
>
> Not to be pedantic, but all T4x series machines are PentiumM, but very few
are
> Centrinos.
>
> In order to be a Centrino, a laptop has to have three things, the Intel
855PM
> chipset, the Intel PentiumM processor and an Intel WiFi card.
>
> Without all three of these items, a PentiumM laptop is "merely" that, a
> PentiumM. So, if you had a Centrino T42 and swapped the Intel .11b
mini-PCI for
> an IBM .11a/b/g mini-PCI card, it would no longer be a Centrino.
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>

_______________________________________________
Thinkpad mailing list
Thinkpad@stderr.org
http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
Received on Fri Jun 25 22:28:26 2004