Intel Prescott core and the NetBurst derivatives really has more disadvantages than advantages
1. Heat
2. High Power Consumption
3. Low Peformance/Watt
4. Low Instruction per clock
5. Needs to be clocked very high to achieve hi performance
Compare it with the mobile Pentium M and its advantages
1. Very very efficient/Low power consumption
2. Very cool operation (ideal for multi cores)
3. Hi Peformance/Watt
4. Hi IPC
5. Beats AthlonFX clock4clock on some benchmarks
The prescott core really consumes a lot of power around 100W+ at 3Ghz+ ghz while a 2.0 Pentium M is only barely 20wats at the same or better performance level...
Mobile Pentium 4-M was discontinued by intel in favor of the Pentium M - a modified Pentium III core, a P6 architecture making the Pentium Pro back in 1996!
I heard intel have plans to have this Pentium M as full fledged desktop CPU. I dont know if they will pursue it...
wat do u tink?