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Intel Launches Centrino Duo Notebooks

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the better-than-solo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel has officially introduced their Centrino Duo platform. The new Centrino uses the Yonah processor which I guess is now called Core Duo. AnandTech has a review of notebooks based on it and the results are pretty impressive. They tested two identical notebooks, one based on Centrino Duo and one based on Centrino. The Duo notebook lasted 30 minutes longer on battery and was faster in the benchmarks. You can't beat longer battery life and better performance."

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  1. "Windows XP Vista"?? by Lemmingue · · Score: 4, Funny

    From Centrino Duo page:

    "Ready for Windows XP Vista*
    Support for the latest software when it arrives."

    What the hell is "Windows XP Vista"? A new Linux distribution?

    1. Re:"Windows XP Vista"?? by cgenman · · Score: 1, Funny

      GNU Windows XP Vista is Not Unix

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  2. Re:Intel Launches Notebooks by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny
    It looked like, from the title, that Intel was launching, not just a new chip for notebook machines, but actual notebook machines. That would certainly have Dell and HP shaking in their boots!

    Hard to imagine a major American corporation getting away with such a massive conflict of interest.

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  3. 'course you can beat that.... by shintaro · · Score: 4, Funny
    >> You can't beat longer battery life and better performance.

    Cause you can. Make it weigh less than 1kg and you have a real winner.

  4. In the year 2000... by inphizzible_friend · · Score: 1, Funny

    All these breakthroughs in technology will be considered ancient when batman introduces the worlds best computer ever. The bat-nipple xp.

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  5. Re:Specs, please! by Markus+Landgren · · Score: 3, Funny
    BTW, the link titled view specification chart on http://www.intel.com/products/centrino/duo/index.h tm contains no specifications at all.


    That's right. The link does not contain that. But the pages it links to do...
  6. Objective by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't beat longer battery life and better performance.

    Yes you can! Just spend more on advertising.

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  7. can't beat that? by __aahlyu4518 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "You can't beat longer battery life and better performance."

    Sure you can.... longer battery life, better performance and lower pricing :-)

    And it's easy to top that one as well ;-)

  8. Re:Lifetime and performance by datafr0g · · Score: 3, Funny

    The point being that better lifetime and performance are no brainers only if all other quality measures don't suffer.

    I agree, but only because the article is about laptops. Vibrators on the other hand, would be greatly enhanced with nothing more than having a better lifetime and performance.

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  9. Actually... by ion_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the hell is "Windows XP Vista"? A new Linux distribution?

    It's Service Pack 3 for Windows® XP®, but instead of calling it SP3 they call it Vista® and put a price tag on it.

    HTH.