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Article: Mobile Core 2 Duo notebooks: notebooks based on the new chips deliver only slightly better performance than portables based on Intel's first dual-core mobile CPUs.(EXCLUSIVE TEST REPORT)
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Eight months ago, Intel rocked the mobile processor world with its first dual-core CPUs, which boosted the speed of a notebook performing two tasks simultaneously by 30 per cent. Now comes Core Duo's successor, Core 2 Duo, accompanied by Intel claims of even better performance and support for the coming era of 64-bit computing. Should you kick yourself for buying that Core Duo notebook in May?
PC World tests suggest you shouldn't sweat it too much. Notebooks get a small performance boost with Intel's new processor, formerly code-named Merom, but battery life appears to remain about the same.
The five new Core 2 Duo mobile chips (Intel earlier released ...