07.15.08
Intel's new feature-rich mobile platform will offer a faster front-side bus, energy-efficient CPUs, DDR3 memory support, new wireless cards, and a new Gigabit controller.
Moving to a new laptop platform is like getting a complete automotive tune-up. When Intel launched its mobile "Penryn" processors earlier this year, the company had the powerful engine in place, but not the collective parts that would've completed the equation. The introduction of a new platform has been a yearly event for Intel, with practically every laptop manufacturer scurrying to launch a new laptop based on the new standard. Last year, the platform, codenamed "Santa Rosa," became the new Centrino platform. Today, Intel has unveiled its successor: Centrino 2 (better known during the past year by its codename "Montevina").
Centrino 2 has a smorgasbord of new features that we can expect to grace every laptop for at least another 12 months, if tradition is any indication. It's arguably the most comprehensive list of features we've seen on a laptop platform yet, complete with six new Intel Core 2 Duo processors, a faster (1,066MHz) Front Side Bus (FSB), two new wireless cards, support for DDR3 memory, and a new Gigabit controller. And that doesn't even begin to paint the whole picture.
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