Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology Benchmark Info.

Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology

Benchmark Info

Introduction

Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology is the platform of choice for both consumers and businesses alike.  With the revolutionary mobile dual-core performance and enhanced high-definition capabilities, consumers can enjoy a thrilling and immersive digital entertainment experience and businesses can be more responsive with great new mobility tools that let employees do more at the same time.

What’s more, Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology based laptops enable improved battery life so consumers can enjoy these capabilities longer and in a variety of form factors that fit their lifestyle.  Intel® Centrino® mobile technology Duo-based laptops – your next leap in mobility!

Introduction

Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology:

•provides for thinner, lighter designs,

•provides enhanced video and graphics performance resulting in superior, faster graphics for gaming, animation and videos as well as for high-definition capabilities and multimedia experiences,

•allows for high-quality audio enabled by Intel® High Definition Audio,

•enables improved battery life,

•has more connectivity options supporting latest security standards so you can connect with confidence.

Form FactorForm Factor

•Minicard design for Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945•Small form factor GMCH•Intel® Advanced Thermal Manager

PerformancePerformance

•1st mobile dual core processor on 65 nm•Intel® Smart Cache Design• Intel® Digital Media Boost•Generation 3.5 Integrated graphics•>200 applications built to take advantage of DC

Wireless Wireless ConnectivityConnectivity

•Connect with confidence to any WLAN - 802.11a, b or g •Support for the latest standards-based security solutions

available•Cisco Compatible Extensions•Business Class Wireless Suite

Battery LifeBattery Life

• Intel® Dynamic Power Coordination•Dynamic Cache Sizing and Enhanced Intel® Deeper Sleep•New power saving features on Mobile Intel® 945 Express

Chipset•New Power saving features on Intel PRO/Wireless 3945•Extended Battery Life Techniques

The four Vectors

Benchmark info: Mobile Performance

For more info: http://www.intel.com/performance/mobile/benchmarks.htm

1 SYSmark* 2004 SE is BAPCo's latest version of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark tool used to characterize the performance of the business client. SYSmark 2004 SE features user-driven workloads and usage models developed by application experts.2 PCMark* 05 Test from FutureMark* is an application-based benchmarking tool used to measure overall PC performance. By using portions of real applications, this benchmarking tool can assess PC performance.3 3DMark* 05 from FutureMark* is a benchmarking tool that combines the latest DirectX* 9.0 support with unique and updated tests and graphics. The CPU Test measures the contribution of the processor on 3D graphical performance while the Game Test measures game simulation performance. Please note that 3DMark* 05 does not run on the Intel Pentium 4 Processor 2.0GHz and 845GE Chipset platform.4 SPECint*_rate_base2000 and SPECfp*_rate_base2000 are capacity-based metrics used to measure throughput of a computer that is performing a number of tasks. This is achieved by running multiple copies of each benchmark simultaneously with the number of copies set to set to the number of logical hardware cores seen by the operating system.

Benchmark info: Entertainment on-the-go

For more info: http://www.intel.com/performance/mobile/benchmarks.htm

1 iTunes* used for digital audio conversion. Microsoft* Windows* Media Player* 10 used for high definition playback.2 Microsoft* Windows* Media Player 10 used for high definition playback. Pinnacle* Studio* 9 used to prepare DVD content.3 Microsoft* Windows* Media Player 10 used for DivX* playback. Adobe* Photoshop Elements 4.0 used to enhance digital photographs.4 Measured in watt-hours. The watt-hour (symbolized Wh) is a unit of energy equivalent to one watt of power expended for one hour of time.5 Fraps* used to measure frames per second.

Benchmark info: Mobile productivity

For more info: http://www.intel.com/performance/mobile/benchmarks.htm

1 Decisioneering* Crystal Ball* 9 software used to perform data analysis. EMC* Dantz Retrospect* 7 used for data backup. 2 Adobe Acrobat* 7.0.1 Professional used for converting PowerPoint* presentation. McAfee VirusScan* used for virus scanning.3 Microsoft Outlook*, Microsoft PowerPoint*, and Microsoft Excel* are the office applications used in this scenario. McAfee VirusScan* used to scan for viruses.4 Measured in watt-hours. The watt-hour (symbolized Wh) is a unit of energy equivalent to one watt of power expended for one hour of time.