Pentium 3s

How big of a difference between an Intel Mobile Centrino and Intel Pentium 4?

There's a program I want to put on my laptop, but I'm not sure if the processor can handle it. It has a Mobile Centrino, but the required minimum for the program is a Pentium 4. How big of a difference is that?

Public Comments

1. well .. Centrino isn't a CPU at all .. it's a mobile technology designed to provide better performance, more featuers and longer battery life .. Intel's Centrino technology incorporates 3 components .. a low power, yet speedy CPU; integrated wireless networking technology; and an Intel chipset (a couple other chips that control certain aspects of your PC and provide a communication bridge between your CPU and these components) .. so basically, if you see a laptop that has "Centrino" technology, it'll most likely have a Celeron (maybe Pentium M) mobile processor, intel wireless network card and an intel chipset .. think of like a car audio system .. if you buy kenwood door speakers, head unit and subs, cabling and the whole 9 it'll all work better and more efficiently together .. the same applies to the intel components in the "Centrino" technology .. a pentium 4 is a desktop processor and does not fall in the category of CPUs used with Centrino technology .. it runs much hotter, requires much more power and would not quality for the "centrino standard" requirements check out the site below for combinations of components used with Centrino technologies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino hope this helps!