GHz uses more power than the 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 Northwood that we saw in the Dell SmartStep 250N), we agreed to take a look at their new J4 Final Engineering Sample to see what we might find under its hood. Yes, that is a Pentium 4 Northwood running at 3.06...

• -How Does The 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 Performance Stack Up?
• -Conclusion - Good Performance & Nice Package

performance gap between laptop and desktop 3D graphics?. Probably the most obvious difference between the two Dell test systems, the Inspiron XPS and 9100, is the CPU. While the XPS came with a standard Pentium 4/Northwood 3.4 GHz, a P4/Prescott 3.2 GHz...

stories. In the first of what will likely be a long lived series, we present number of those responses.. From DJ Krypplephite (his online handle) Back in the days of early Northwood, I had purchased an HP Pavilion 513n. (1.8 GHz Celeron, 256 MB...

was big, power hungry and hot. The door into the mobile world was finally pushed open for Pentium 4 when Intel had finished the 0.13 micron 'Northwood' core, as found in all desktop Pentium 4 models with the 'A' at the end. Northwood is much smaller, needs...

micron 0.13 micron ECC/non-ECC ECC ECC ECC ECC ECC ECC As can be seen from the technical specifications, the mobile P4-M processors we tested were all derived from the desktop CPU with a Northwood core. They have a 512 kB L2 cache and are manufactured using...

notebook for a few days and had no complaints about its office performance. The less important Internet content creation run of Sysmark 2002 shows different results. It seems as if it was tuned for Intel's "Northwood" Pentium 4. Especially the Flash...

• -The Other Test Candidates