The Professional M3 ships with an Intel Pentium® M processor on board. We now have found a Centrino based processor that can deliver the kind of power that we demand of our computers. The Intel Pentium M 1.73 does just that partly because of its speed enhancing 2MB of L2 cache. This machine stands and delivers serious power. Your digital audio software will roar.
Intel® Pentium® M
Integrated Wireless LAN Capability
Eliminate the hassle of cables, cards, and antennas with the integrated wireless LAN capability of Intel Centrino mobile technology. With the Wi-Fi certified components of Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology, you can access information and communicate on-the-spot through wireless Internet and network connections, many of them available in public Wi-Fi networks (called "hotspots") located around the world.
What's more, Intel Centrino mobile technology is built to support a wide range of industry WLAN security standards and leading 3rd party security solutions (such as Cisco Compatible Extensions) so you know your data is secured by the most up-to-date wireless security standards available.
Outstanding Mobile Performance
For today's multi-tasking, on-the-go computing lifestyle, you want outstanding mobile performance when you're away from your home or office. With mobile applications becoming more complex, and demanding faster, more efficient computing performance, Intel Centrino mobile technology is designed to meet the demands of new and future applications with technology that offers faster instruction execution at lower powers.
Some key features contributing to the outstanding mobile performance of Intel Centrino mobile technology include:
- Micro-ops fusion which combines operations to reduce time and power required to execute instructions.
- Power optimized Level 2 Cache and Enhanced Data Pre-fetcher which reduce off-chip memory access and increases availability of valid data in L2 cache.
- Advanced instruction prediction which analyzes past behavior and predicts which operations are likely to be requested in the future eliminating CPU process replication.
- Dedicated stack manager improves processing efficiency by performing general “housekeeping” functions
Enables Great Battery Life
Intel Centrino mobile technology delivers outstanding mobile performance while enabling great battery life with power saving technologies such as:
- Intelligent power distribution to focus system power where the processor needs it most.
- New power-efficient transistor technology which optimizes power consumption and dissipation for lower CPU power.
- Support for Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology to dynamically enhance application performance and power usage.
| Features |
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Benefits |
Power Optimized 533 MHz processor system bus, Micro-ops Fusion & Dedicated Stack Manager.
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Allows faster execution of instructions at lower power. |
Support for enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology w/ multiple voltage & frequency operating points.
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Allows for better match of performance to application demand. |
| Execute Disable Bit° Support |
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Can help prevent certain classes of malicious “buffer overflow” attacks when combined with supporting operating system. This is an optional feature and is available on the latest Intel® Pentium® M Processors. |
Support for Intel® Mobile Voltage Positioning (Intel® MVP IV).
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Dynamically lowers voltage based on processor activity to lower thermal design power enabling smaller laptops. |
| Micro FCPGA & FCBGA packaging technology |
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Optimized for a range of thinner, lighter designs including <1” thick that deliver outstanding performance. |
Slim, Light Laptop Designs
Intel Centrino mobile technology enables the latest in mobile PC designs, from thin and light, to full size. To fit high-performance processors into the latest slim and ultra-slim laptops, PC tablets, and other cutting-edge PC designs, Intel Centrino mobile technology uses Micro FCPGA (Flip Chip Pin Grid Array) and FCBGA (Flip Chip Ball Grid Array) technologies for packaging processor chips specifically optimized for thinner, lighter laptop PC designs.
The smaller designs of new laptop computers require special considerations be made at lower powers to suppress thermal power. In response to this, Centrino mobile technology features Low Volt (LV) and Ultra Low Volt (ULV) options that allow the processor to run at lower voltages, to decrease thermal power for tablet and extra-slim laptop designs.
| Intel®
Pentium® M Processor 740 |
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Processor |
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 |
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Processor
Speed |
1.73 GHz |
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Bus
Speed |
533
MHz |
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Processor
Class |
Intel
Pentium® M |
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Chipset
Compatibility |
Intel
915GM |
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Manufacturing
Tech. |
90
nm |
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Bus/Core
Ratio |
15 |
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Level
2 Cache |
2MB |
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