Pentium M info wanted

Peter Gordon admin at ramshacklestudios.com
Mon Feb 20 04:27:38 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 22:17 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> I bought a Dell laptop that was supposed to have a 1.86GHz processor.
> But cat /proc/cpuinfo displays:
> 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 13
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
> stepping        : 8
> cpu MHz         : 798.060
> cache size      : 2048 KB
> 
> 
> Have I been lead astray?

No. The model name is correct. It's very likely just the CPU/kernel
scaling the speed on an "as-needed" basis to save power. ("Intel
Enhanced SpeedStep Technology," I believe it's called.)
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