“Early next year Intel will intro ... a 753 (1.20GHz) ultra low voltage Pentium M at $260”

from http//www.theinquirer.net/?article=18467

Looks good.

Might have to consider upgrading my TR3 if it is possible.  It would show some gains in performance.  If nothing else, do it just to see if it can be done.

I don’t think anyone has replaced a CPU yet.  In time maybe.

Do you guys really think an increase of 100MHz will make much of a difference on our sub compact needs….Against a 1.1 GHz I wonder how much gain would be noticed…

These processors already have a whopping 2 MB L2 Cache…I am thinking the bottle neck is at the 4200RPM hard drives…If the could up the 1.8inch to 7200RPM I think that would be a nice performance increase..

[quote author=“Chris687”]Do you guys really think an increase of 100MHz will make much of a difference on our sub compact needs….Against a 1.1 GHz I wonder how much gain would be noticed…

These processors already have a whopping 2 MB L2 Cache…I am thinking the bottle neck is at the 4200RPM hard drives…If the could up the 1.8inch to 7200RPM I think that would be a nice performance increase..

Well if anything 5400 RPM would be the first step… while that would be nice most manufacturers may not implement it since it will reduce standard battery life + the 4200 RPM’s is already close to melting the tiny 1.8” HD.

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”][quote author=“Chris687”]Do you guys really think an increase of 100MHz will make much of a difference on our sub compact needs….Against a 1.1 GHz I wonder how much gain would be noticed…

These processors already have a whopping 2 MB L2 Cache…I am thinking the bottle neck is at the 4200RPM hard drives…If the could up the 1.8inch to 7200RPM I think that would be a nice performance increase..

Well if anything 5400 RPM would be the first step… while that would be nice most manufacturers may not implement it since it will reduce standard battery life + the 4200 RPM’s is already close to melting the tiny 1.8” HD.

Yeah, I wish they would put a 2.5 inch these notbooks…

No i do not expect a large margin of gain, but having the latest tech under the hood is always a plus in my book.

One reason i am considering this as a possible upgrade.  Is that my CPU is on running with 1.0ghz and 1MB L2 cahce.  A 200mhz along with doubling the L2 cache should be more noticeable than only upgrading 100mhz with no change in cache.

I am using my TR as my sole computer and don’t plan on getting a desktop anytime soon.  So the more upgrades the better.  I will be doing the BT and EM-500AG upgrades in January.  Already have a 60GB HDD on backorder.  No ETA though.

I wonder if the TR motherboard supports the new chip.  I have emailed SONY multiple times of the possible compatibilty issues in the past weeks, but no response. 

Does anybody know what the TR motherboard specs are?

[quote author=“ECKAMUS”]No i do not expect a large margin of gain, but having the latest tech under the hood is always a plus in my book.

One reason i am considering this as a possible upgrade.  Is that my CPU is on running with 1.0ghz and 1MB L2 cahce.  A 200mhz along with doubling the L2 cache should be more noticeable than only upgrading 100mhz with no change in cache.

I am using my TR as my sole computer and don’t plan on getting a desktop anytime soon.  So the more upgrades the better.  I will be doing the BT and EM-500AG upgrades in January.  Already have a 60GB HDD on backorder.  No ETA though.

I wonder if the TR motherboard supports the new chip.  I have emailed SONY multiple times of the possible compatibilty issues in the past weeks, but no response. 

Does anybody know what the TR motherboard specs are?

Yeah, an extra 1MB of cache and a 200MHz performance increase I think would be an increase that you would notice….

I don’t. If they did, then they wouldn’t be able to create such thin designs with low power requirements. What I do wish for is the 1.8” drives to be more standard since the main players (Toshiba and Hitachi) have different interfaces for the drives unlike the 2.5” drives which are all standard.

Also, I’d like them to keep pushing areal densities, larger cache sizes, and faster RPMs. Balanced correctly, you can get 7200RPM-like performance from 5400RPM drives. Another thing that will help is to get NCQ (Native Command Queueing) into notebooks as it can help increase performance by making the interface smarter. The very latest desktop SATA hard disks and controllers are supporting this now although it still hasn’t caught on just yet. My old SCSI equipment (on WinNT4) had command queueing abilities and it used to tear through anything without skipping a beat.

[quote author=“ECKAMUS”]No i do not expect a large margin of gain, but having the latest tech under the hood is always a plus in my book.

One reason i am considering this as a possible upgrade.  Is that my CPU is on running with 1.0ghz and 1MB L2 cahce.  A 200mhz along with doubling the L2 cache should be more noticeable than only upgrading 100mhz with no change in cache.

I am using my TR as my sole computer and don’t plan on getting a desktop anytime soon.  So the more upgrades the better.  I will be doing the BT and EM-500AG upgrades in January.  Already have a 60GB HDD on backorder.  No ETA though.

I wonder if the TR motherboard supports the new chip.  I have emailed SONY multiple times of the possible compatibilty issues in the past weeks, but no response. 

Does anybody know what the TR motherboard specs are?

dont just wait for the dothan 2 mb 1.2 ghz ulv.  wait for the whole package, that processor + alviso + 2915 a/b/g, then buy.  that’s what i m doing now, wait for total package

what is alviso?

i thought the hitachi’s and toshiba’s had the same 1.8” interface

I thought so too….hmmmm

Alviso/Sonoma isthe next gen Intel notebook platform. They include stuff like faster bus, better graphics, high def audio, a/b/g wireless etc.

It was originally supposed to ship in late ‘04 but has been delayed to early ‘05.

I was pretty surprised that the Sony T came out when it did with the old stuff instead of launching with the new bits in January.

Alviso/Sonoma isthe next gen Intel notebook platform. They include stuff like faster bus, better graphics, high def audio, a/b/g wireless etc.

It was originally supposed to ship in late ‘04 but has been delayed to early ‘05.

I was pretty surprised that the Sony T came out when it did with the old stuff instead of launching with the new bits in January.

Thats too bad for me :cry:  Since I just got my T-150…But, with technology always changing you never know…

Look at the x505 and all the techology they left out of that…Like wifi and bluetooth…

So when you get down to loosing the extra weight…I guess everything counts..

Most of us were surprised when the T was mostly a re-badged TR…

I am very interested in seeing what comes out after the new year.

Erik

[quote author=“Chris687”]Look at the x505 and all the techology they left out of that…Like wifi and bluetooth…

So when you get down to loosing the extra weight…I guess everything counts..

Well, it has WiFi, just not internal. I am surprised about BT considering how small the BT module is, there must have been a reason for it…I haven’t figured it out myself just yet.

Erik