"Since a couple of years Intel is dominating the mobile market. Portables based on the Centrino platform are very popular. The core of the platform is the Pentium Mobile, Pentium M in short. Intel desktop processor reached higher and higher clock speeds, close to 4GHz but their performance didn’t scale as hoped and now heat production and high power consumption are holding Netburst technology, which drives the desktop Pentium 4, back from advancing. A small Intel team in Israel has been working hard the past few years, they ignored the Netburst technology, went back to the original Pentium 3 design and worked their way up to the Pentium M series, which is regarded as one of the best operations per clock/power consumption designs for the public. So today we compare their latest incarnation: the Core Duo, how does it compare to the Pentium M."

"The use of these chips was limited to laptops. Laptops didn’t have dual channel memory configurations in the beginning and tend to have weaker vga cards. Fortunately some manufacturers saw the chips’ potential and they created products which allowed these laptops CPU to be used in a desktop configuration. Although these new motherboards had quite a bit of overclocking potential, there high price made them not very desirable. Still one could build a silent powerhouse thanks to the lower heat output from the CPU."

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