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Intel Launches Centrino Duo Notebooks
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."
Apple decided to go with Intel...because of these laptops...
Where can one find the the assumptions and circumstances under which these "pretty impressive" results are obtained?
Um, maybe in the article?
Indeed, it is hard to imagine that you can have "identical" notebooks with different chipsets.
"The beauty of the W5F and W5A is that they are virtually identical, with the only real difference being that the former is based on the Napa platform while the latter is a Sonoma notebook. ASUS even went one step further and shipped us notebooks with processors clocked identically - the W5F featured a Core Duo T2400 (1.83GHz) while the W5A featured a Pentium M 750 (1.83GHz)." -- RTFA
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
What? Are you saying General Motors can't make cars and trucks because they make engines? Did you know they make diesel locomotives, also?
I have several (old) Intel computers in my basement. Oddly enough, they use Intel CPUs.
Many manufacturers produce "brand labeled" products in the same plants, using the same parts that they use in their own products; for example Westinghouse producing their own washing machines, and also producing an identical unit with the Kenmore label.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Wikipedia could be wrong, but in this case, it isn't.
On a related note...
A friend of mine has a PhD in neuroscience. He discovered something in the brains of mice which has opened up new methods for effective brain related drugs for humans. His discoveries have also helped in the field of brain surgery and he has taught brain surgeons about his findings. Suffice it to say, he really knows his stuff. So I was disappointed to hear that when he updated a Wikipedia page related to his field of expertise, a page which apparently was written by an amateur and technically incorrect, his updates were REPLACED by the incorrect person and put back to the previous incorrect version.
This added weight to my worst fears, that Wikipedia would become a place where SOME egos would slog it out with the biggest ass winning and ignorance reigning.
What good is Wikipedia if any random topic can so very easily be WRONG.
You're going to have more than 64gb of memory in your notebook (Pentium series can address that much with paging)?
Fair enough 64 bit will be required eventually, but really, 32bit is good enough for a while yet.
smash.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.