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Joe, Re: But on battery power, it is still 174, while Centrion drops to it's slow speed and score of 420, which means that Athlon-M performance is 141% faster. So in mobile use, it's no comparison, Centrino is blown away.

Joe, you are the one who obviously does not understand how power management works. Dynamic power switching doesn't come for free. You will always have a tradeoff between performance and power; dynamic switching only lessens the tradeoff. It does not eliminate it. THG showed what the Athlon gets in max power mode - 502 seconds. PowerNow mode will be somewhere in the middle of 502 seconds and 174 seconds, but it will not be 174 seconds. Likewise, the Pentium M SpeedStep mode will be between 154 seconds and 420 seconds, but it will not be as slow or as fast as those two numbers. THG obviously aimed at testing those two extremes, and in both cases, the Centrino blew away the Athlon XP. Sure, there may be 2200+ Athlons around the corner, but when a hardware site reviews one of them, let me know.