Latitude 333MHz memory: What do you expect?

Hi all,

The following Dell notebooks are (as of 1-19-2005) advertised to come with (Intel® Pentium® M Processors and) 333MHz memory, (as compared to, in tables, to 266MHz memory for other models).

Latitude: D505
Inspiron: 700M, 8600, 9200
Precision: M60

Would you expected, given the comparison, that your memory would run faster? If these systems were design to take advantage of the full performance capabilities of the components, the 333MHz memory (PC2700) should be able to benchmark at near 2.7 GB/s as oppose to 2.1 for 266MHz memory. That's an increase of .6/2.1=29%. You most likely paid for that increase.

Whether or not you have any of these systems, please feel free to get your opinion as to what performance you would expect, given the content of their web pages (see below for how to get to web pages):
A. 333 MHz systems would have BETTER/FASTER memory
performance than 266MHz systems
OR B. 333 MHz systems would have the SAME memory
performance as 266MHz systems

If you have one of the above systems, I hope you can run a benchmark program to verify you memory performance (not cache, but main memory performance). If you have not, I can tell you the benchmark that I ran under windows XP Professional:
SiSoftware's Sandra 2005 Lite (The "Lite" version is the free version)
Their main web site is: http://www.sisoftware.net
There are many download sites to choose from (which is a bit of a concern) so have you security software watching.

Under Linux, I used the "streams" benchmark:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/

If you don't get what you expected, perhaps the list and Dell would find that interesting....
My finding are, for the M60, that the 333 MHz memory is running at 266MHz. This has been acknowledged by Dell. They seem to disagree with me that there specs. on the web are deceiving. I recently tested an Inspiron 9200 and found that it's 333MHz memory is also running at 266. (I haven't talked to Dell about that.)

Dell (at least one tech support person) thinks that as 333MHz memory is getting more available, customers just want to know if they can use it -- no performance increase is implied/stated.
What does this community forum think?

Below is one way to get to the various notebook specs. Note: there are paths to get to the specs from any of the categories:
o Home & Home Office
o Small Business
o Medium & Large Business
o Government, Education & Healthcare

To get to the table for the D505:
www.dell.com
--> Small Business
--> Notebooks
--> Choose Latitude
To get to the table for the Inspirons:
www.dell.com
--> Small Business
--> Notebooks
--> Choose Inspiron
--> scroll down and click on
"Product Details" under any
of the Inspirons models
--> Learn More(next to Memory)
A new window will pop-up
click "Details"
For the M60:
www.dell.com
--> Small Business
--> Notebooks
--> Choose Precision Mobile Workstation
--> Learn More (next to Memory)
A new window will pop-up
click "Details" THIS ONE ACTUALLY
SAYS 2.7 GB/s! (at least it did on
1-19-2005)