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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."
is 30 mins that significant ?
Obviously if your train journey lasts 30 mins more than your current battery life then is does.
But I would go with a margin of error of at least 30 mins in battery life depending on individual usage plus wifi, bluetooth, external devices etc.
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"The new slogan is supposed to signify Intel's shift away from focusing "inside" and starting to look at platforms and solutions for the end users."
What does this sentence mean? Intel is going to make their own hardware and software now?
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Apparently before the end of the year. The Pentium brand has now been around almost 13 years, and in a way it's past its prime. If Intel is tearing almost every other aspect of its marketing up to start fresh, Pentium, along with Intel Inside, is arguably the most stale, and Intel Inside has already been dumped. It seems like a good place to start. I, for one, welcome our new Core-named overlords...