Intel Pentium M 740

The Pentium-M has been Intel's top of the line mobile processor for quite some time. The 90nm Dothan CPU made it's debut on May 10 of 2004 and was released with frequencies ranging from 1400MHz to 2100MHz.

If I remember correctly the Pentium-M (roughly) equals performance per MHz with an Athlon64 S939. This means that a 2GHz Pentium-M would be as fast as an 2GHz Athlon64.

The Pentium-M is an efficient design based on the Pentium III with added features from the Pentium 4 (i.e. SSE2, faster front-side-bus). It was also part of the Intel Centrino platform which basically means a laptop has to be built around an Intel CPU, Intel chipset and Intel WiFi chip.