Gaming

In 3DMark03's CPU tests, the Pentium M 1.4GHz is nicely out in front of our Mobile Pentium 4 1.8GHz, but things change when we switch over to real-world games.

In our real-world gaming tests, the Pentium M 1.4GHz system gets smacked around by the Mobile Pentium 4 1.8GHz system, but the performance difference likely has much more to do with each notebook's graphics subsystem than with actual processor performance. After all, the Mobile Pentium 4 1.8GHz-powered Inspiron 8200 is running with an extra 32MB of graphics memory and a more recent driver revision than the Pentium M 1.4Hz-equipped Latitude D600.