Well! I was planning on purchasing a Dell XPC 1330, recently reviewed here on this site, in the next month or so. Guess I should hold off a bit. Maybe they'll upgrade the cr*p camera on the LED-backlight model at the same time. Just hoping they can still provide XP drivers for the new platform.
"Centrino 2" doesn't make it less confusing in the overall picture. To average buyers this kind of "platform" has no meaning. Instead we hear of laptops with "Centrino Duo processor"s.
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (3.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 4x512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz Bus, Socket AM3)
Asus P7P55D Motherboard (Intel Socket H LGA1156, P55 Express, ATX, 16GB DDR3)
Intel Core i5 750 Qaud Core Processor (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5 GT/s Bus, Socket H LGA1156)
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard
Intel's fifth-gen Centrino to launch as Centrino 2
Anonymous Coward
802.11n? #
Posted Monday 18th February 2008 12:18 GMT
Any point in launching a product based on a (still) non-ratified wireless standard?
Vaidotas Zemlys
A lot of 2s #
Posted Monday 18th February 2008 13:14 GMT
So the sticker on the laptop wil be Centrino 2 Core 2 Duo? Intel is very fond of number 2, eh?
thomas k.
timely news #
Posted Monday 18th February 2008 16:45 GMT
Well! I was planning on purchasing a Dell XPC 1330, recently reviewed here on this site, in the next month or so. Guess I should hold off a bit. Maybe they'll upgrade the cr*p camera on the LED-backlight model at the same time. Just hoping they can still provide XP drivers for the new platform.
Wyrmhole
Confusion #
Posted Monday 18th February 2008 17:26 GMT
"Centrino 2" doesn't make it less confusing in the overall picture. To average buyers this kind of "platform" has no meaning. Instead we hear of laptops with "Centrino Duo processor"s.