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    centrino ?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by racein, Aug 1, 2008.

  1. racein

    racein Notebook Geek

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    Sorry I am a little confused here, I have been looking at some laptops, and their specs, some are listed with intel centrino, and others are intel core duo 2. I went to intel site to try and figure out are all intel core duo 2 processors centrenio? Maybe someone could tell me if I am correct or not, and maybe tell me what I should look for in my shopping. Thx

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    racein, Aug 1, 2008
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    From Wikipedia - Centrino is a platform-marketing initiative from Intel. It covers a particular combination of mainboard chipset, CPU and wireless network interface in the design of a laptop personal computer.

    The Core 2 Duo refers specifically to the Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core) CPUs, with the x86-64 instruction set.
     
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Centrino is well a platform that includes CPU, chipset and wi-fi. There are graphics solutions mentioned but well that is misleading as discrete are allowed and only one integrated graphics solution is offered with each Intel chipset.

    At least in the near past the most likely component offered that might make a notebook not a Centrino is the wi-fi.

    Here is a link to explain better. I myself care more about CPU and chipset than wi-fi.

    Edit: Andy I type slow!
     
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    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    OK, from now on, I'll also type slow. :D
     
    Andy, Aug 1, 2008
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