Business Notebook with Centrino Mobile Technology: Asus M2N
1:00 PM - July 11, 2003
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by
Harald Thon
Table of contents
- 1. Using 1.5 GHz Pentium M Instead Of 1.6 GHz Pentium M: A Dollars-and-Cents Decision
- 2. Powergear: Power Management By Asus
- 3. Setup
- 4. The M2N In Pictures
- 5. The M2N In Pictures, Continued
- 6. Benchmarks Under Windows XP
- 7. Synthetic Benchmarks
- 8. SiSoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU, Multimedia And Memory, Continued
- 9. SiSoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU, Multimedia And Memory, Continued
1. Using 1.5 GHz Pentium M Instead Of 1.6 GHz Pentium M: A Dollars-and-Cents Decision
Asus' latest model, the M2N, is sold in the US only as a barebone notebook ((i.e., no CPU, RAM, hard drive or operating system). However, it does have Intel's 855GM chipset with integrated graphics and Intel's WLAN module (Pro/ WLAN2100), and that makes it worthy of the name Centrino. For this review, we used a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M processor with this model.
During the tests, we discovered that if you power the system with the battery under certain energy schemes, the CPU cooling remains passive, i.e., does not get any support from the fans whatsoever. We'll see whether this method is powerful enough to keep the die temperature of the Pentium M cool under any operating conditions.
