Intel’s new laptop platform looks set to offer buyers significantly improved performance compared with its previous Centrino technology. Early tests suggest new dual-core systems are more than 40% faster at the same clock speed, while maintaining or extending battery life.
Centrino Duo models feature a new Core Duo mobile chip that fits two processor cores onto a single piece of silicon. More extensive power-saving features have been included in both the processor and its companion chipset, according to Intel. In tests conducted by VNU Labs a dual-core Acer Travelmate laptop achieved a performance score 42% higher than a Pentium M system with the same clock speed. The Acer system also showed a similar improvement in battery life, although this was partly due to it having a slightly larger battery.
While vendors such as Acer and Fujitsu Siemens have unveiled Centrino Duo laptops, HP said it did not have any new models to announce yet and Dell declined to disclose its plans.
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