Centrino Laptops

What is Centrino?

Centrino is a shorter name for Centrino Mobil Technology from Intel corp. ...or, in material terms, a series of several new electronic chips and cards that are used in laptops. Intel claims that you as the laptop user will see many benefits by getting a Centrino laptop...

What's included in the Centrino pack?

There are three things really - Intel Pentium M processor, Intel 855 chip set and Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 card. The Pentium M is your laptop CPU (vs. Pentium 4 or Pentium 3), the 855 chip set is to support your graphics memory, and the Pro/Wireless 2100 card is to connect your laptop to a wireless network.

What does it take to become a Centrino laptop?

This is not a joke question... Intel is very clear about this naming convention. If a laptop manufacturer made only two components available in its laptops (the CPU and the 855 chip set) than they can only be called Pentium M laptops. To call it the Centrino laptop all three components including a wireless card must be present.

Benefits of Centrino technology

• Integrated wireless LAN capability:
  - This simply means that you'll have a wireless card built-in into your laptop. This would be Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 card... There is nothing new about having a wireless card built-in, especially that this card only supports 802.11b wireless Wi-Fi standard and thus a transfer speed of 11 Mbps/sec max - Dell, for example has its own built-in cards that support up to 54 Mbps/sec. So it is not really that good of the news... What's different about this card is that it is a low power consumption card.
• Greater laptop performance:
  - Again, Intel claims that a 1.7 GHz laptop built on Pentium M processor will outperform a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4-M laptop... This outperforming means three main things: you'll be able to run more programs on the background (basically more programs at the same time without sacrificing CPU performance), your graphics will display more details, your battery will last longer.
• Extended battery life:
  - The new Pentium M processor will distribute battery power intelligently... by giving more power to programs that need it most and giving less to less computing-intensive programs. Thus it will achieve lower average power consumption and prolong your battery life.
• Thinner and lighter laptops:
  - Here are many reasons how they can do it... Intel is using their new chip packaging technology to make Pentium M and 855 chip set smaller and thinner. The 'intelligent' chip sets will run at a lower voltage, and thus create less heat meaning less or no cooling fans. The lower average battery power consumption will allow smaller battery size. ...All that together will enable laptops to be thinner and lighter.

Manufacturers that are using Centrino Mobile technology in their laptops

IBM, PC Club, Toshiba, Panasonic, Dell, Gateway, Systemax, Motion Computing, Acer America, Alienware, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, Sony, ABS Computers, MPC

Hmm, just reading all this makes you want one.... Centrino piece. Check out Dell Latitude D500 as one of the cheapest Centrino laptops.

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