Need the lowdown on the P3-M

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited January 2005 in Hardware
I just picked up a pretty good deal on a Pentium III-M notebook as a birthday gift for my fiancee. It's a Sharp UM32W wth a 1GHz PIII-M CPU, 512MB PC133 SDRAM, 40 GB HDD, 802.11b built-in, all under 4 pounds. I'm wondering if there's anything I should look out for on this machine before I give it to her. Any particular snags to the PIII-M? Any issues with Sharp notebooks I need to be aware of? Any tips? What kind of relative performance can I expect out of this thing? She basically needs to run office apps and Mathematica on it for school... along with a game or 2 if the Intel Extreme Graphics can handle it. :rolleyes: Also, I paid $400. Did I get a good deal?

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  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited January 2005
    Not too sure about Sharp as far as quality. My Toshiba Tablet PC has a 1.33GHz PIII-M processor. It uses very little power (only 0.8V to the cpu), and is an ideal chip for smaller laptops. It is plenty quick for any work related applications I run on it. It seems to throttle down while folding though :D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Sharp is rather large in the European and Asian markets, though they just exited the American market due to a poor response. Their quality shouldn't be questioned.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2005
    Just install and run mobilemeter on it, clean out the heatsink, etc. and you should be fine.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited January 2005
    GH, the P3-M most probably is a Tualatin based proc and it should have 512k L2 cache on a 133 fsb but it could also be a coppermine with 256k L2 cache and a 100 fsb, from looking at Intel's s-specs for mobile P3's. Either one should give you good performance though.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Sweet thanks guys! Any comments on the deal I got?
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