What is Centrino?
03 March, 2005 in CPU In early March 2003, Intel announced the arrival of a new brand name, the “Centrino”. The concept is a thin, lightweight, cool, quiet laptop with long battery life that also uses wireless technology so you can connect to the Internet or other computers in your home, office, or any of the rapidly growing number of public “hot spots” like coffee shops, hotels, airports, universities, libraries, and other convenient places. However Centrino is not a processor. Rather in order for a laptop computer to be called “Centrino”, it required the new Pentium M processor, an Intel 855 chipset, and an Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 (802.11b) or Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG (802.11b/g) network card. The Pentium M processor is the most important of the three, and it has been much-anticipated by those who value battery life over raw performance. It uses 25 watts at full maximum, compared to the more than 100W a Pentium 4 3.4GHz Hyper-Threading processor uses. This allows laptops to be small
